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4 unusual facts about Infection


Illyriad

In Jun 2011 the geography of one part of the world became infected and changes on a daily basis.

Navel piercing

Infection: A new piercing may take up to 6–9 months before it can be taken out, during which time sweat and bacteria may cause infection.

Plant pathosystems

Infection is the contact made by one parasite individual with one host individual for the purposes of parasitism.

Tonono

On 31 May 1975 he appeared in his last match for Las Palmas, a Copa del Rey contest against CD Málaga, contracting a viral infection shortly after and dying on 9 June at only 31 years of age in Las Palmas.


Anemia of chronic disease

Anemia of chronic disease as it is now understood is to at least some degree separate from the anemia seen in renal failure in which anemia results from poor production of erythropoietin, or the anemia caused by some drugs (like AZT, used to treat HIV infection) that have the side effect of inhibiting erythropoiesis.

Athlete's foot

Zinc oxide-based diaper rash ointment may be used; talcum powder can be used to absorb moisture to kill off the infection.

Behind the Mourner's Veil

Originally, the record was going to include another original song, "Slow Infection", based on the Black Dahlia murder, and a cover of the Hallows Eve song "Plunging to Megadeath".

Bockleton

The parish church of St Michael has an 1867 monument, in white marble, by Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner to William Prescott, a local squire who died from an infection caught after tending his sick gamekeeper.

Brain abscess

Organisms that are most frequently associated with brain abscess in patients with AIDS are poliovirus, Toxoplasma gondii, and Cryptococcus neoformans, though in infection with the latter organism, symptoms of meningitis generally predominate.

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever

Frederica (Amanda Jelks) dies in the swimming pool from the infection and Rick (Thomas Blake, Jr.) is killed when he drowns after hitting his head on the side of the pool and falling in.

Cardiff University School of Medicine

The building includes 4500 square meters of state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment for research into Infection & Immunity, Cancer Biology and Psychiatric Genetics, adjacent to a purpose-built Clinical Research Facility.

CCR5

The normal ligands for this receptor, RANTES, MIP-1β, and MIP-1α, are able to suppress HIV-1 infection in vitro.

Cerebral shunt

Common microbial agents for shunt infection include Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Candida albicans.

Complications of pregnancy

Because of this, blood-borne microorganisms (Hepatitis B, HIV), organisms associated with sexually transmitted disease (e.g., Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia), and normal fauna of the genito-urinary tract (e.g., Candida) are among those commonly seen in infection of newborns.

Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia

Isolation of M. capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae from clinical samples is the only way to definitively diagnose the infection but it is not normally performed as it is time consuming and difficult.

Cryptic bat rabies

Silver-haired bats (Lasionycteris noctivagans) and Eastern pipistrelles (Pipistrellus subflavus) are the two most common bat species associated with this form of infection, though both species are known to have less contact with humans than other bat species such as the Big brown bat.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis

It is a skin infection caused by a single-celled parasite that is transmitted by sandfly bites.

Dax Cowart

Instead, Cowart was subjected to medical treatments, which he likened to being "skinned alive" on a regular basis, including being dipped in a chlorinated bath to fight infection and having the bandages covering his body regularly stripped and replaced.

Dead Island: Riptide

The immune regain consciousness on the shore of the island of Palanai and are found by Harlow, a WHO researcher, who tells them the zombie infection has spread there as well.

Diaprepes abbreviatus

They often eat the taproot of the plant, which can kill it by depriving it of water and nutrients or by making it vulnerable to infection by fungi, or water moulds such as Phytophthora.

Genetic engineering in the United States

These were plants where the genetic material originated in sexually compatible plants (cisgenic), plants that used physical barriers to prevent the target pest from attaching itself, and plants expressing viral coat proteins to protect against virus infection.

Granulomatous prostatitis

It is a form of prostatitis, i.e. inflammation of the prostate, resulting from infection (bacterial, viral, or fungal), the BCG therapy, malacoplakia or systemic granulomatous diseases which involve the prostate.

History of emerging infectious diseases

Pre-existing theories of disease: Before a pathogen is well-recognized, scientists may attribute the symptoms of infection to other causes, such as toxicological, psychological, or genetic causes.

Humanitarian crisis

An ongoing or lingering pandemic may amount to a humanitarian crisis, especially where there are increasing levels of virulence, or rates of infection as in the case of AIDS, bird flu or Tuberculosis.

IFIT proteins

IFIT proteins (Interferon Induced proteins with Tetratricopeptide repeats) are produced in human body that are supposed to confer immunity against viral infection.

Imbricata

Tinea imbricata, a superficial fungal infection of the skin limited to southwest Polynesia, Melanesia, Southeast Asia, India and Central America

Jet injector

An experiment using mice, published in 1985, showed that jet injectors would frequently transmit the viral infection LDV from one mouse to another.

John David Kelly

Shortly after being sworn in, Kelly fell ill with an infection in mid-October 1998 and was taken to the Mayo Clinic.

Levamisole Induced Necrosis Syndrome

Incision and drainage of the nodes was performed and he was discharged home with sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim for presumed Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection.

Magnesium chloride

It has been found that higher concentrations of magnesium in tomato and some pepper plants can make them more susceptible to disease caused by infection of the bacteria Xanthomonas campestris, since Mg is essential for bacterial growth.

Megalodiscus temperatus

temperatus, in comparison with other anthelmintics, Praziquantel (PZQ) may be used as treatment to combat infection.

Ménétrier's disease

The cause of Ménétrier disease is unknown, but it has been associated with CMV infection in children and H. pylori infections in adults.

Mohammed Al-Bayati

After Scovill died on May 16, 2005 of an HIV/AIDS-related infection of Pneumocystis pneumonia, her mother, Christine Maggiore, had the autopsy reviewed by Al-Bayati, who came to a different conclusion: that Scovill had died of an allergic reaction to amoxicillin, a conclusion Maggiore agreed with.

Mundame

By 1970, the community was described as a "forest village", with a relatively high level of infection by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus, the causative agent of river blindness.

Naigahelp

A young girl went to the hospital they worked in, suffering at first only from a small wound suppurating due to an infection.

Nanophyetus salmincola

There are no known cases of human infection by the Rickettsia bacteria carried by N. salmincola.

Peginterferon alfa-2a

This drug is approved around the world for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C (including patients with HIV co-infection, cirrhosis, 'normal' levels of ALT) and has recently been approved (in the EU, U.S., China and many other countries) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B.

Plasmacytoid dendritic cell

The number of circulating pDCs are found to be decreased during chronic HIV infection as well as HCV infection.

Populus grandidentata

A preferred host of gypsy moth, death occurs when nearly complete defoliation by gypsy moths is followed by a fungal infection by Armillaria spp.

Pruritus ani

Some diseases increase the possibility of yeast infections, such as diabetes mellitus or HIV infection.

Salui, Malawi

Salui is home to many orphaned children, most likely as a result of a large number of adult deaths due to HIV infection.

Sinusitis

Acute rhinosinusitis — a new infection that may last up to four weeks and can be subdivided symptomatically into severe and non-severe;

Streptococcus suis

The recent death of 64 of 66 children affected with a complex syndrome including menningitis and pneumonia in Cambodia has been linked to a multiple infection of the children with Dengue fever, Enterovirus 71 and Strep.

Thomas Borody

As a gastroenterologist, Borody is most famous for his work on the development of the triple therapy for infection with Helicobacter pylori bacteria.

Tolerance to infections

Disease resistance is the host trait that prevents infection or reduces the number of pathogens, parasites and herbivores within or on a host.

Trebuchet

Also human corpses could be used on special occasion: in 1422 Prince Korybut, for example, in the siege of Karlštejn Castle shot men and manure within the enemy walls, apparently managing to spread infection among the defenders.

Ukiah Oregon

It is revealed that several centuries ago the invasion force of a hive mind species called the Ontongard arrived in the Solar System with the intention of converting all life on Earth into a copy of itself, via a form of viral infection.

Under Our Skin

The film follows six individuals including major league ball player Ben Petrick who report chronic symptoms, which they attribute to persistent Lyme infection.

Ureaplasma infection

Ureaplasma infection is an infection by an organism in the genus Ureaplasma, usually Ureaplasma urealyticum.

WHO Disease Staging System for HIV Infection and Disease in Children

CMV infection (CMV retinitis or infection of organs other than liver, spleen or lymph nodes; onset at age one month or more)

Xenodiagnosis

Medical professionals primarily use xenodiagnosis in determining the presence of a chronic infection of Trypanosoma cruzi (the flagellate that causes Chagas disease).


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