Sentence examples for infection example from inspiring English sources
Here we adapt Hempel's "strep infection example" (Hempel 1965) to illustrate the employing of S-R model: S = x who has an infection, Q = quickly recover, T or –T refers to whether x is treated with a specific medicine y or not, R or –R refers to whether the infection is resistant to one medicine or not.
In addition, we have confirmed that all cell lines are free from Mycoplasma infection (example shown in Figure 1).
The immune status and consumed medications are expected to influence the risk of infection; examples include diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and other collagen vascular diseases, and use of steroids.
Such phylogenetic inferences can enable the identification of sources or reservoirs of infection: examples include the acquisition of leprosy by humans from wild armadillos and the acquisition of Mycobacterium bovis in cattle from sympatric badger populations [ 41, 42].
Diastolic hypotension might reflect other concurrent infections (for example, bacterial infection) or metabolic disturbance (for example, hypoadrenalism) that may contribute to mortality.
Also for a number of human infections (for example hospital infections such as MRSA) indirect transmission has been implicated.
There are similar examples with other sequential infections; for example, prior influenza infection affects outcome for subsequent respiratory syncytial virus infection [ 20].
In addition, there is increasing recognition of the importance of mixed infections and the interactions between viral and bacterial infections, for example, influenza virus infections that predispose to bacterial pneumonia [ 12].
Indeed there are animal models where autoimmunity is induced by infection, for example the Theieler's virus model of multiple sclerosis in mice [24].
Interventions can be made in the chain of infection, for example through minimising unprotected contacts with infected poultry, or chance encounters with patients, and through administering antiviral drugs.
However, the model does not include some detailed aspects of the malaria infection, for example, the immune status of humans.
