Brandon concludes: "If the swine flu episode was a case of overreaction in the face of infectious disease, HIV/AIDS has been a sorry record of ideological paralysis and federal unwillingness to act effectively".
"The single biggest problem we face in infectious disease today is the rapid growth of resistance to antibiotics," said Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida.
His work suggests that a feisty immune defense--as measured by the quantities of certain proteins called cytokines--allows survival in the face of infectious diseases; but it might also hamper fertility because a woman's immune system must temper its reaction to a growing fetus in order for a pregnancy to succeed.
On one hand, IL-10 plays a crucial role in the resolution of inflammation and as such reduces the risk of immunopathology when organisms face an infectious disease.
The conference successfully illuminated the female face of infectious diseases.
Recent advances in sequencing technologies are changing the face of infectious disease investigation and control.
With the continuation of such efforts, the newly spotlighted female face of infectious diseases can also be the face of hope and progress.
The address reminded listeners of the female face of infectious diseases: women may be biologically more susceptible to certain infections and suffer more severe complications.
The intermediate sub-model refers to middle- or low-income countries, such as India, Vietnam, and Mexico, which still face overlapping infectious diseases and NCDs (17, 58, 60, 62, 63, 104, 181).
Jim is more appealing than some of Amis's later heroes; his hatreds – expressed viscerally through a vast repertoire of grotesque faces – are infectious, while his increasingly elaborate attempts to dig himself out of trouble rarely have the desired effect.
