All patients meeting the criteria for HPS should undergo initial tests to diagnose the underlying infecting organism, which should be guided by epidemiological data and the patient's medical history.
These common human respiratory viral pathogens share a tropism for the superficial epithelial cells of the respiratory tract, although IAV appears to be much more cytopathic and also efficiently infects underlying cells in the epithelium [13], [14].
Availability of data on radiological changes in the lungs could have strengthened the evidence in support of our hypothesis regarding changes in the lungs resulting in severe outcome in patients with underlying tuberculosis co-infected with influenza.
This finding may have resulted from a higher percentage of community-onset infections and liver abscesses and less severe underlying illness in patients infected with a K1 serotype.
These reporting policies suggest that an underlying prejudice against chronically infected individuals in China may deter at-risk individuals from getting screened (even if screening is available) and subsequently receiving the vaccine or being monitored for liver cancer.
Many viruses, for example, exploit holes in Microsoft's mail or browser software to infect the underlying Windows operating system.Many observers believe that Microsoft's new-found concern over security is mere window-dressing.
Comparative genomics studies with other biotrophs should elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying common strategies to infect plants.
This search for the so called "virulence factors" has greatly contributed to the understanding of pathogenicity and to the elucidation of the genetic mechanisms underlying microbes' capability to infect different cell types or organs.
Second, although evidence from our lab and others [35], [36], [46] indicate that intrabursal delivery of adenoviruses results in infection of primarily surface epithelial cells, it may be possible that some underlying stromal cells are also infected and are more readily transformed than the epithelial cells.
In this study, we modelled the natural history of HPV infection and CIN to simulate the progression and regression of women's underlying health state of those infected with HPV.
Results In this study, the authors investigate the mechanisms underlying fear reduction in rats infected with the protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii.
