There are more than 350 dog breeds, each maintained as a breeding population separate from other breeds, which are collectively afflicted by more than 450 reported genetic diseases, the incidence of which varies from breed to breed [ 1, 2].
Collectively, they afflict approximately 150 million people in over 80 countries with more than 1.5 billion at risk of infection [7].
Environ Health Perspect 123:792–798; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1408751 Autoimmune disorders, although individually rare, are collectively estimated to afflict 7.6 9.4% of Americans (Cooper et al. 2009) and are among the 10 leading causes of death among women (Thomas et al. 2010; Walsh and Rau 2000).
The CEOs have been afflicted collectively with both amnesia and with an astounding failure of the imagination (no surprise) in this tendentious struggle for the content they are fighting so desperately to control.
Perillo sometimes takes out her frustrations on her readers so they feel the emotions she struggles with — the pain, shame, jealousy, grief and resentment that collectively dispel the myth that the afflicted are more kindly or peaceful or spiritually sound for being physically compromised.
The diseases caused by protozoa of the Order Kinetoplastida, collectively known as the trypanosomiases and leishmaniases, afflict millions of the world's poorest people.
Collectively, ~5% of western populations are afflicted by autoimmune diseases, such as type I diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis (MS) [ 1, 2].
Collectively, these gene expression profiles of skin ECM and MMPs classify the wounds afflicted by SL as chronic, due to the significantly protracted duration and deregulation of events in the healing cascade.
Collectively, these findings suggest that amyloid conformers can spread from cell to cell within the brains of afflicted individuals, thereby spreading the specific neurodegenerative phenotypes distinctive to the protein being converted to amyloid.
