(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.
Reinfect
Definition:
(v. t.) To infect again.
Example Sentences:
(1) At day 28-35 the rate of cured or improved patients had decreased, mostly due to reinfections, to 90.1% in the cefixime group and to 86.6% in the cefaclor group (p = 0.12), respectively.
(2) Cytomegalovirus can cause primary infection, reactivation or reinfection by transfusion.
(3) Prophylactic administration of ionol which prevented a post-stress aggravation of the primary influenza infection failed to produce a favourable effect on the immunity in case of reinfection.
(4) Further delineation of RSV-induced immunopathogenesis in primary infection and reinfection will provide important information for the development of vaccine strategies.
(5) and those who became reinfected during this time (susceptible?
(6) Challenge after abbreviation of primary infections at different stages of worm development showed that persistence of larvae beyond day 21 was critical in determining poor response to reinfection.
(7) This reinfection pattern supports the use of long-term antibacterial prophylaxis in all girls who have more than three or four recurrences of infections.
(8) This case-report concerns the problem of rubella-reinfection in pregnancy (17th week of gestation).
(9) These data indicate that rabbits submitted to reinfection are able to kill the worms from their primary infection, besides being protected against challenge parasites.
(10) This implies that the number of CD4 receptors is not rate limiting for reinfection.
(11) These observations suggest that the restricted antibody responses to multiple antigenic sites on the F glycoprotein in young seronegative infants and children and the decreased responses to both the F and HN glycoproteins in young infants and children with maternally derived antibodies may play a role in the susceptibility of human infants and young children to reinfection with PIV3.
(12) The mechanism of this immunity is not well understood; usually there is poor correlation between circulating antibody levels and the degree of resistance to reinfection, but more work is needed to both man and animals on the significance of the different classes and types of circulating antibody.
(13) Cytoplasmic ultrastructural changes developed after challenge in two of these animals; the remaining three had evidence of possible mild reinfection on the basis of liver histopathology or mild elevations of transaminase or both.
(14) These observations will allow clinicians to identify treatment failures or reinfections at the earliest possible time during their follow-up.
(15) When compared with male control subjects, male study patients had fewer documented subsequent STD reinfections.
(16) 1 other patient who came for control after 12 months had been exposed to reinfection and again voided eggs in her urine.
(17) A twofold method has been developed in order to reduce the relatively high frequency of reinfection in case of involvement of the frontal sinuses.
(18) Four months after the second mass treatment, the reinfection rate of A. lumbricoides was most prevalent followed by trichuriasis and hookworm infection.
(19) Reinfection causes inflammation as judged by a 1.5 to 2.3-fold increase in the amounts of plasma leaking through the ear vessels as measured by leakage of Evans blue dye.
(20) Out of 6 patients given long-term immunoprophylaxis 3 cases showed stable liver function, without any signs of reinfection, and the HBsAg negative status remained for up to 19 months after transplantation.