Sentence examples for potential overgrowth from inspiring English sources

However, as habitat recovery is most often primarily designed for vertebrate suitability, very little attention is paid to the considerations of microbial colonization or potential overgrowth of invertebrate vectors that can contribute to the transmission and spread of diseases.

Despite their extensive use, culture methods have their limitations, including the potential overgrowth of B. pseudomallei by other environmental bacterial species, especially when it is present in small numbers.

Because of the marked IEL without laboratory or histologic evidence of celiac disease, she was treated with Ciprofloxicin® and Metronidazole® for potential bowel overgrowth and/or tropical sprue.

Such a, potential nonspecific, overgrowth of macroscopic connectivity is further supported by observations of corpus callosal and associative tracts in young rhesus monkeys, revealing the highest number of axonal connections at birth, followed by a 70% decrease in axonal count in the first postnatal weeks (Price and Ferrer 1993; LaMantia and Rakic 1994).

The extensive R. howesii invasion and subsequent loss of coral reef habitat at Palmyra also highlights the importance of rapid removal of shipwrecks on corals reefs to mitigate the potential of reef overgrowth by invasives.

(C ) Expression of anti-apoptotic p35 within PTEN clones (marked by GFP) enhances the overgrowth potential of PTEN mutant tissue.

Evidence that this is a cause of lgl mutant cells elimination was obtained by increasing dMyc levels in lgl mutant clones: their overgrowth potential was indeed re-established, with mutant cells overwhelming the neighbouring tissue and forming tumourous masses displaying several cancer hallmarks.

Other limitations of this treatment include cost (which can be offset by using the intravenous formulation given orally in place of vancomycin capsules) and also the potential for promoting overgrowth or colonization of other clinically important pathogens that reside in the intestine (eg, Enterococcus and Staphylococcus species).

The increase of gastric pH leads to bacterial overgrowth and potential colonization of trachea determining a higher risk of VAP.

3 The proposed mechanism behind this potential effect is bacterial overgrowth of the stomach and oesophagus increasing the risk of bacterial aspiration.

A convenient broth for amoebal coculture is Page's modified Neff's amoeba saline (PAS) (10 ), which is preferable to Nelson's and peptone-yeast extract-glucose medium because PAS is devoid of nutrients, thus reducing overgrowth of potential contaminants in clinical samples.