For many infectious diseases, frequency of infection is generally higher, and the clinical outcome often worse, in male patients (5 – 8 ).
Isolated microorganisms, absolute, relative number of infectious episodes, frequency of polymicrobial infections, and days to first episode and crude mortality for each type of infection were registered.
In addition, controlling behavior might impair child linear growth by increasing the risk of lower respiratory tract infections and diarrheal diseases during the first year of life [ 4], which is in line with previous studies reporting that increased infectious illness frequency and severity are associated with poor growth [ 30, 31].
Since livestock movements are important for the spread of infectious diseases, the frequency and distance cattle move are analysed, as well as how frequently contacts between farms recur.
Therefore in standing conditions and assuming AS occurrence is not dependent on infectious exposure, increasing frequency of the ALRR allele in the general population should not result in an increase of the global AS prevalence in the sheep population.
To assess associations between FeLV and other infectious agents, infection frequencies were compared using the Fisher's exact test (GraphPad Prism version 3.00 for Windows, GraphPad Software, San Diego, USA).
In previous experiments [ 42] as well as in a preliminary test (T. Nidelet, unpubl. data), the frequency of infectious hosts (i.e., carrying at least 1 infectious form) on day 11 ranged from 10to30%0%.
To describe the pharmacoepidemiology of rituximab use in children and to estimate the frequency of infectious events within a 1-year period after rituximab exposure.
Their evolution was marked by the significantly higher frequency of infectious complications (p < 0.05), thromboembolic complications (p < 0.05) and acute renal failure (p < 0.05).
Indeed, we found that Level 3 hospitals had a higher frequency of infectious complications (including pneumonia, urinary tract infection, sepsis) than Level 2 hospitals (13% vs. 6%).
