(n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
(n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
(n.) That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
(n.) Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
(n.) Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.
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.
Leprous
Definition:
(a.) Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.
(a.) Leprose.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is very difficult to say whether heart disease was due to any other cause associated with leprosy or due to leprous affection of myocardium.
(2) The production of reversal reactions in leprous nude mice in response to adoptively transferred CMI was studied in a quantitative fashion.
(3) It is suggested that Lazarine leprosy may result from enhanced lepromatous leprous infection occurring as a result of protein malnutrition.
(4) We detected substantial amounts of mycobacterial antigen in 16 leprous lymph nodes using anti-BCG by the peroxidase anti-peroxidase method.
(5) The present report describes a similar study, using TNS treatment in attempts to accelerate healing of chronic leprous ulcers that had resisted treatment for several months or years.
(6) With an immunoperoxidase method to localize lysozyme in leprous tissues, two distinct staining patterns were found, granular and saccular.
(7) In 1856 it was decided that all leprous patients should be examined by the local doctor (District Health Officer), and registered in a national leprosy register.
(8) Few studies have been published on large series of leprous neuritis patients treated surgically.
(9) The study demonstrates a clear therapeutic effect for low-frequency TNS in patients with leprous ulcers.
(10) In a yeast extract, glycerol and sheep serum containing medium, slow but abundant growth of mycobacteria occurred when media were inoculated with M. leprae isolated from leprous tissues of armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus Linn.).
(11) Furthermore, all leprosy patients with B8 had leprous member(s) in their family.
(12) It would be a great thing if one of [the] alternatives [aspirants] garners a large enough number of votes to show thinking Nigerians that there could be a third force, because in reality, both the [incumbent] PDP and the [opposition] APC are rotten fingers of the same leprous hand,” wrote Chxta , a prominent Nigerian blogger.
(13) The hepatitis B virus markers were studied on 553 leprous sera and 100 controls sera.
(14) For eighty-six cases of leprous paralysis of the intrinsic muscles of the hand, a modified Bunnell opponensplasty (transfer of a finger flexor) was done.
(15) From none of these liver homogenates were acid-fast bacilli grown on culture in Löwenstein-Jensen medium.The alterations in liver functions were more consistently seen when acid-fast bacilli were associated with the presence of leprous granulomatous lesions.
(16) In the dermal hypersensitivity assay, the guinea pigs sensitized with soluble antigens of M. lepraemurium only responded to the antigens of M. lepraemurium, M. leprae and partly to M. scrofulaceum, but not to other antigens, including lepromin and leprous serum globulins.
(17) Twelve cases were of diabetic neuropathy (DN), nine of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), eight of idiopathic, six of leprous, three of toxic neuropathy and one each of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) and carcinomatous neuropathy.
(18) A list of published applications includes use in therapy for postherpetic neuralgia, increased peripheral circulation, itching, varicose ulcers, ischemic ulcers, diabetic neuropathy, leprous neuritis, would healing, increased survival of skin flaps, Raynaud's phenomenon, scleroderma, esophageal dysmotility, and glossodynia.
(19) Mycobacteria were isolated from pooled leprous tissues of an armadillo.
(20) In view of the phagocytic propensity of schwann cells for M. leprae as the important factor in leprous neuritis, TC preparations of gliomas, (in addition to acoustic schwannomas and meningiomas), were inoculated with two mycobacteria, M. scrofulaceum and the ICRC bacillus.