Sentence examples for immune system failure from inspiring English sources

In the early 1980s when first reports were emerging of young gay men in the USA dying of seemingly systemic immune system failure, we could not have realised that this thing called 'GRID' was the start of the AIDS pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 25 million people worldwide and has left approximately 33.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS[ 5].

A general implication of the immunity-suicide coupling hypothesis is that infected bacterial or archaeal cells routinely make decisions on the nature of their response to virus infection: induction of a dormancy-like state to allow priming of immunity; immediate immune response; or dormancy/suicide in the face of immune system failure.

Victims typically experience a few days of flulike symptoms before, in the case of strong doses, suffering organ and immune system failure, then death.

The article "Baffling Disorders Often Stem From Immune System Failure" (Aug. 15), written 17 years after the onset of my illness, covers much the same ground and shows how relatively little progress has been made over this time.

In the advanced stages of HIV/AIDS, immune system failure opens the way for opportunistic infections and unusual cancers, particularly Kaposi sarcoma.

Studies suggest that in the early years of infection, when a patient may show few signs of immune system failure, the virus is in fact causing permanent damage that becomes evident later.

Aids may well disclose something about connections between immune system failures and cancer.

Severity of illness was evaluated on the first ICU day using the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score, and Knaus' scale definitions were used to record preexisting chronic organ failures including respiratory, cardiac, hepatic, renal, and immune system failures.

Knaus scale definitions [ 25] were used to record pre-existing chronic organ failures, including respiratory, cardiac, hepatic, renal and immune system failures.

Knaus scale definitions were used to record pre-existing chronic organ failures including respiratory, cardiac, hepatic, renal and immune system failures [ 13].

Increasingly caveolae are being implicated in the genesis of a variety of disease states, ranging from cardiovascular and neurological diseases to cancer and immune system failures (see Ref. [52] for review).