Some viruses cause acute infections lasting for days or a few weeks while others infect their hosts for a lifetime.
Elderly patients, many of whom are living at home alone with little support, are regularly being admitted to A&E after falls or for acute infections.
But if it bears out, he says, it could point to a way to treat acute infections ranging from influenza to Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
In acute infections and especially in the pulmonary form of the disease, the symptoms include coughing, high fevers, hard breathing, chest pain and heavy perspiration.
The First Transition occurred with the Agricultural Revolution beginning 10,000 years ago, bringing a rise in acute infections as the main cause of human mortality.
At the time, it was considered harmless, but in the intervening years medical experts determined that it could cause acute infections in people with weakened immune systems.
Developing countries suffer more lurid and acute infections: malaria, tuberculosis, measles, cholera.
Whooping cough is worldwide in distribution and among the most acute infections of children.
I wanted to manage the acute infections.
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition following acute infections.
The most common acute infections occur in the respiratory tract.
