Sentence examples for a pathogen point from inspiring English sources

In this respect, CEACAM1, from a pathogen point of view, represents an ideal receptor since it allows both easy entry into the host due to its wide-spread expression in epithelia and, at the same time, suppression of the adaptive and innate immune system.

The emergence of Clostridium difficile as a major nosocomial pathogen points to the need for safe, effective, and fast-acting environmental sporicides for infection prevention and control.

However, up to this point, a pathogen was isolated in only 10/16 patients.

Britain and its trees are coming under increasing pressure from a range of foreign pathogens, a point underlined last week when scientists revealed that the horse chestnut tree was now being threatened by a different invader – the leaf miner moth, which has spread through England and Wales, and was recently discovered in Scotland.

Current understanding of infections by A/E pathogens points towards an extracellular lifestyle, with bacteria adhering strongly to the surface of enterocytes.

Measuring a pathogen biomarker in urine with a point-of-care lateral flow assay has many additional advantages over conventional sputum microscopy and culture, including reduced risk of transmission to healthcare workers.

The growing problem of antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens points to the need for novel therapeutic approaches to combat infection; a simple infection and high-throughput screening model system is urgently needed.

With pathogens, points of feedback add additional complexity.

Earlier work to identify virulence factors in plant pathogens pointed to the presence of multiple forms of enzymes with similar functions, such as pectinases [ 33, 42], that were associated with infection of living plant tissues.

From a parasite's or pathogen's point of view, encountering a new body is a bit like standing at the edge of a vast and unexploited wilderness perhaps it will turn out to be inhospitable and uninhabitable, but perhaps, just perhaps, one could survive there and gain relatively exclusive access to its riches (in this case, human cells and the energy and machinery they contain).

The resistance response includes the "Hypersensitive response" (HR), a rapid response triggered by a pathogen recognition event that includes localized cell death at the point of pathogen penetration and the induction of pathogenesis associated genes.