(v. t.) To taint with morbid matter or any pestilential or noxious substance or effluvium by which disease is produced; as, to infect a lancet; to infect an apartment.
(v. t.) To affect with infectious disease; to communicate infection to; as, infected with the plague.
(v. t.) To communicate to or affect with, as qualities or emotions, esp. bad qualities; to corrupt; to contaminate; to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious.
(v. t.) To contaminate with illegality or to expose to penalty.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(3) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(4) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(5) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(6) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(7) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(8) Thus, saponin and ammonium chloride can be used to isolate whole infected erythrocytes, depleted of hemoglobin, by selective disruption of uninfected cells.
(9) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(10) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(11) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(12) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
(13) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(14) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(15) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(16) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(17) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
(18) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
(19) Other research has indicated that placing gossypol in the vagina does inhibit the effect of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection, however.
(20) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
Pox
Definition:
(n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
(v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopical examination showed the presence of typical pox virions in affected epidermal cells.
(2) The NIa-like protein of plum pox virus is a protease with high sequence specificity that is autocatalytically released from the viral polyprotein.
(3) Significant increased risks were associated with a history of herpes zoster infection (odds ratio (OR): 2.3, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.1-4.9), chicken-pox (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.2-4.1) and mumps (OR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.1-3.8).
(4) Pox virus isolated from psittacine birds was used as a vaccine in trials with love birds (Agapornis roseicollis).
(5) Ecthyma contagiosum, or orf, is an uncommon dermatosis resulting from cutaneous infection with sheep pox virus.
(6) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
(7) Pth and Pox induced pulmonary edema by increasing endothelium permeability without changing the hemodynamic parameters at any level of the vascular bed.
(8) We have measured glomerular filtration rate (GFR), extracellular fluid volume (ECF), oxalate distribution volume (OxDV), plasma oxalate concentration (POx.
(9) A total of 45 of the 60 birds in the aviary developed pox lesions around the beaks and eyes.
(10) The immune response of chicks to oral vaccination with HP1-strain of fowl pox virus was studied using intracellular virus alone or a combination of intra and extracellular viruses.
(11) Rhesus monkeys immunized with the soluble fraction elicited virus-neutralizing (1:1,200), complement-fixing (1:16), and hemagglutinating-inhibiting (1:80 to 1:160) antibody titers and were completely protected against monkey pox virus-induced disease.
(12) On the other hand, the binding of GuoPP[CH2]Pox to EF-2 inhibited all of these reactions strongly.
(13) There was no significant difference between immediate prehaemodialysis POx and the POx in the CAPD patients.
(14) A trypsinized preparation of Mycobacterium phlei, non specific stimulator of immunity (NSI), and Sheep Pox Virus (SPV) were inoculated in different groups of sheep to activate B-lymphocytes and induce SPV neutralizing substance(s).
(15) An infection of cattle by transmission of vaccinia virus from milkers vaccinated against small pox is reported.
(16) They refer to an outbreak of sheep-pox at Rackwitz, a place near his practice at Wollstein (Fig.
(17) The compounds also protected mice against lethal mengovirus infection and against the development of experimental pox lesions on the tail.
(18) For a rapid proving of the pig pox virus in the skin of naturally infected pigs, the simple electron microscopic method of negative staining was used.
(19) The POX1 gene encodes a 84-kDa POX protein composed of 748 amino acids.
(20) Several avian viruses (infectious bursal disease virus, Newcastle disease virus, Canary pox virus, and reovirus) formed plaques under agar.