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However, most of the latter are chronically infected.
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The fish were infected with 18 helminth species, four myxozoans and one protozoan.
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In highly endemic areas dogs may be infected with hundreds or even thousands of parasites on average.
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Table 3 compares the households with only the index case infected to the households with two or more seropositive members (including the index case).
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The occurrence of influenza-related complications was similarly distributed among individuals infected with each virus variant.
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Over the years, limited outbreaks due to infected food or non-pasteurized milk have occurred.
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Occupied only by infected livestock (assume any infected wildlife within a patch immediately go extinct); the number of patches is i.
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Specifically we investigate levels of heterozygote deficit in the genotypes of oocysts from multiply infected mosquitoes.
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Ten to twenty per cent of all congenitally infected children have manifested disease.
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The number of latently infected individuals at the x-axis ranges from 0 to 20.
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Children have been shown to be infected simultaneously by one, two [9] or multiple enteric viruses [14] or different strains of the same virus [15].
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In the brain, macrophages/microglial cells are productively infected, while neurons and oligodendroglia are not.
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The perfectionist speaks of '(simply) good', not 'good for', since 'good for' is infected with desire-dependence.
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There are n kinds of illness that she may be infected with and each requiring a particular medication.
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Initially, we do not know the exact illness that the patient is infected with.
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However, sensitivity may be lower for babies born to women infected in the first trimester of pregnancy.
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As in earlier analyses, comparisons were made between experiments using hosts infected with either rediae or sporocysts.
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Even more prominent differences were observed between calves infected with the above-mentioned isolates.
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The first intermediate hosts in trematode life cycles serve as a means to asexually increase the number of clones available for infecting subsequent hosts.
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In experimental infections, no adult worms or larvae were recovered from mice infected orally and peritoneally nor from chicks infected orally.
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Wedding cakes were probably contaminated directly by infected food handlers, or indirectly via contaminated food preparation surfaces or utensils.
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Estimates of the minimum percentage of subjects infected in the group of highly exposed and less exposed exhibitors.
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Through case notes they also show details about individuals who were infected with infectious disease.
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The discovery that men were infected with hookworm resulted from the preliminary investigations.
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Many are first infected in late youth or adulthood, so that the disease usually presents in a symptomatic and serious form.
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The rate of meningitis in the infected infants was 30 % while all the recently infected adults were asymptomatic.
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The maximum of 10 % initial prevalence corresponds to the complete subflock being infected.
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Note that all susceptible contact animals were infected, and that only one of the infected animals survived the infection.
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Most young cases must have been infected recently [9], given that they have had relatively few years of life in which to have become infected.
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The rate of infection determines the proportion of women infected during their childbearing years in the absence of vaccination.
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The mean helminth richness per infected host was 1.4 ^ 0.6 (range 1 - 4; n 1⁄4 128).
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Naturally infected flukes were identical with those recovered from experimentally infected fish.
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Part of the observed variability of infecting levels between samples could also be associated with temporal changes.
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Two of the 5 were infected with a total of 33 worms; 23 in one mouse and 10 in the other.
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The study included 24 fresh cattle livers from infected animals and two uninfected controls.
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The physiology of the host is not only affected by direct exposure to pollution, but also when the host is infected with pollutant-exposed cercariae.
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Two groups of lambs were experimentally infected with different isolates, and kept separated on previously ungrazed plots.
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To confirm that all animals were not infected with nematode parasites, faecal samples were taken at turnout.
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Only 8.0% of the snails with shell length 15 mm were infected, in contrast to 98.0% of the snails with shell length > 26 mm.
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The liver and lungs of rodents, which were found to be infected during perfusion, were also examined for the presence of schistosomes.
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No data exist for the effects of basic salts or their mixtures on hosts infected with other endoparasites.
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The infected cell itself tended to lose the expression of desmin with time, but desmin expression was increased in satellite cell origin cytoplasm (table 4).
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Likewise, the year-round presence of cystacanths in amphipods revealed that the acanthocephalan infects fish throughout the year.
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The present results on predilection sites in naturally infected horses are comparable to those of other studies of experimentally infected animals.
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The source of this infection was 25 fish infected with a mean of 159.6 trophonts per fish (table 1).
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In the second group of six rabbits each given 200 metacercariae, five were infected, with two or three flukes per host.
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The unidentified nematode larvae did not exhibit any relationship correlated with flounder length, with length groups infected to varying degrees (fig. 1b).
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Fish were found to be infected with this nematode throughout the year.
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Humans become infected by ingesting embryonated eggs from soil or contaminated food.
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When metacercariae harvested from the snakes and intercostal muscles of rodents were infected orally to cats, they developed into adult flukes in the small intestine.
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Naive lambs were infected with larvae obtained from control and fenbendazole treated groups and were necropsied 35 days after infection for worm recovery.
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In addition, the number of cysts (which ranged between 3 and 48 per infected camel) was also higher in camels over 10 years of age.
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From days 2 -7, both infected and uninfected juveniles had survival rates of greater than 80%.
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Only 25 % of the model simulations have samples infected with three serogroups.
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However, epidemiological studies that take all infected family members into consideration are lacking.
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However, none of the four rabbits inoculated with the diluted (10x2) preparation from 91 days exposure were infected.
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The unit approach to cycle avoidance is potentially more accurate, but at the expense of infecting interfaces with complex dependency information.
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In this case, hosts may be infected by the parasites but more resistant ones are harmed less.
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Estimated parasitaemia at malaria diagnosis ranged widely from 100 to 200 000 infected red blood cells\l of blood.
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Few authors have looked at the antibody response of fish that are naturally infected with fish lice.
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On average, copepods were infected with 2n3 parasites.
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When a copepod is infected by a parasite, good physical condition should become even more crucial for survival compared to parasite-free conditions.
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Thus, parasites may avoid being eaten by cleaners by infecting fish at times when predators are scarce.
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The probability of a marine gastropod being infected by a trematode.
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Overall, 51n04 % of snails were infected (range across 9 sites l 8n7-100 %) with 1 or more species.
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Epidemiological processes appear to be the most parsimonious explanation for the diversity, abundance and distribution of ectoparasite species infecting fish.
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Individuals were assumed to be either infected, with probability p, or not.
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Older hosts have a higher probability of being infected.
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Parasites were mostly shaped as small dots or ring forms, and were located on the periphery of multiply infected erythrocytes.
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Neither was there a spatial difference in the distribution of nesting infected and uninfected males in the field.
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However, using the longitudinal data, samples can be more reliably classified as uninfected or infected.
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Transmission of vesicular stomatitis virus from infected to noninfected black flies co-feeding on nonviremic deer mice.
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Both adult and nymphal ticks become persistently infected and provide an overwintering mechanism for the virus.
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In a further assay, samples from animals infected with a range of species were re-examined.
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Of the mice infected, without reinfection, 60 % exhibited electrocardiographic dysfunction at 90 days post-infection.
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In one of the latter districts 36 % of children under 9 years old were infected.
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Monkeys, sheep, goats and the duikerbok have been successfully infected in this manner.
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The bug becomes infective eight daysafter feeding upon infected blood and remains infective over a year.
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The infection was maintained by a fluctuating proportion of the fish population and no single fish was continuously infected.
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Only once, at day 28, were all the fish simultaneously infected.
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In many low income countries it is often more common to be infected than not to be.
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In total, 109 (19 %) bank voles and 12 (8 %) wood mice were infected.
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Around two-fifths of the world's population are now at risk of the disease (one estimate is that 80 million people are infected each year).
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He infected his hearers with the sense that this search after religious truth was of urgent importance to humanity.
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People who were infected by them immediately became as men possessed ad out of their minds.
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There were no pelvic ganglion neurons infected by both viruses.
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The cause of the neurotoxicity remains unclear as neurons are not infected, but the disturbance of glutamate-linked calcium entry has been implicated.
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The idea of nature is also vulnerable to being easily infected by notions of 'human nature'.
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The models include such factors as the spatial structure and heterogeneity of host populations and the topology of contacts between infected and susceptible individuals.
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Patients in endemic areas may be infected by multiple contacts with different triatomines and these, in turn, may feed on different infected individuals.
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A damaged or infected cell might secrete chaperonins to signal a stress to neighbouring cells.
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Each child was infected with a different mycobacterial species, suggesting that an innate defect in host immunity was involved.
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Unfortunately, these early signs of institutional ageism infected some of the key figures of the day.
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The exception was a single cat infected by a bat variant.
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To obtain spores of this parasite, we took one naturally infected female and kept her in good food condition until she died from the infection.
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In the outbreak reported in this paper, many clinical units were affected and a substantial proportion of caregivers infected.
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All animals that were infected were assumed to be infectious.
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