Sentence examples for to pox from inspiring English sources
noun
A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.
Animals given the drug before or shortly after exposure to pox virus survive, whereas untreated animals die.
Life is so tediously uniform -- all its DNA twists to the right, all its amino acids are left-handed, and everything from people to pox viruses uses the same genetic code.
Second, we do not know if birds that were unexposed to pox at the time of sampling continued to be parasite-free.
We developed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for the presence of antibodies in the serum of Darwin's finches specific to pox virus or Philornis proteins.
We found no sex difference in pox-specific antibody levels (mean±SE for Daphne Major females = 0.61±0.12 OD; mean±SE for Daphne Major males = 0.67±0.18 OD; Mann Whitney U = 91.50, p = 0.71), suggesting equal exposure of males and females to pox virus.
To develop a more comprehensive picture of the host cell responses to pox virus infection and viral subversion of that response, we profiled the temporal program of gene expression at high resolution during 40 time courses of infection with two different poxvirus species, in several different human cell types (Table S1).
It has in the past year alone sucked me into the heart of 80s England, catapulted me to pox-ridden Victorian back streets and ambushed my dreams with ghostly fades caught in a hellish limbo between heaven and earth.
Early Hawaiian bird extinctions of the mid to late 1800's have been attributed to avian pox [2], and the virus may be contributing significantly to the continued decline of some populations.
Thanks to the work of The Carter Center and its partners, Guinea Worm is soon expected to follow Small Pox to become the second human disease ever eradicated.
Mr. Callera stopped frequently before what appeared to be unremarkable plants, slicing them open with a pocket knife and explaining how they could be used to treat everything from jungle rashes to chicken pox.
Such an approach is currently being used in combination with marker-assisted selection to incorporate resistance to several fungal and bacterial pathogens into commercial apple, and resistance to Plum Pox Virus into plum.
