Sentence examples for transmissible agents from inspiring English sources

"The unit staff is trained in strict infection control practices optimized to prevent spread of potentially transmissible agents such as Ebola".

Unconventional, passionate and enthusiastic neurologist and virologist, she devoted her life to research on latent and slow viral infections, specializing mainly on unconventional transmissible agents or prions.

Humans are commonly exposed to transmissible agents that infect and cause a wide variety of subacute and chronic diseases in chickens and turkeys.

A recent study found a small amount of proteinaceous material on LMA™ after classical sterilization suggesting a risk of contamination by unconventional transmissible agents (prions).

It is also more common in women who use oral contraceptives than in those who use a barrier method of contraception like the diaphragm or condom, possibly because barrier methods protect against transmissible agents like viruses.

Highly virulent parasites that kill hosts quickly yield fewer pathogens whereas more benign parasites may yield a higher number of transmissible agents.

[2], [12], [23] To investigate the nature of the transmissible agent following secondary transmission from human-to-human following blood transfusion we have examined the biological properties of brain material from the first case of transfusion-associated vCJD inoculated into panels of both wild-type, and transgenic mice expressing human PrP.

While this seems unlikely in the absence of any pathological evidence of transmission from vacuolated rostral colliculus in this study, a transmissible agent cannot be entirely excluded as the cause of the lesion.

By injecting blood from people with non-A, non-B hepatitis, the scientists produced hepatitis in chimpanzees, proving that a transmissible agent was involved.

A transmissible agent called a prion, a deviant form of a harmless protein normally found in the brain, is now known to cause the disease.

Often Caused by a Virus In recent years research has shown that in about 95percentt of cases, cervical cancer is caused by a common sexually transmitted virus, the human papilloma virus, or H.P.V. Discovery of the link to H.P.V. brought the nature of cervical cancer full circle as a disease caused by a transmissible agent that is linked to sexual activity.