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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"dysentery"”.
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Dysentery in Egypt from the clinical standpoint
In all tropical and sub- tropical countries bowel disorders are of Prìrne importance: particularly is this so in Egypt, where every newcomer develops, sooner or later, intestinal upset - popularly designated "Gippy Tummy" - possibly one attack and then apparent immunity for years, more frequently …
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Investigation of the Efficacy of Various Proteinase-Treated "Serpula (Treponema) Hyodysenteriae" Vaccines
The problem. Swine dysentery is a severe mucohemorrhagic diarrheal disease that primarily affects swine during the growing-finishing period. The etiological agent of swine dysentery is "Serpula hyodysenteriae", an anaerobic Gram-negative spirochete. Financial losses from swine dysentery are a …
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The Characterization of Several Intestinal Spirochetes of Animal Origin
… and (3) to further characterize the swine dysentery spirochete (SD).
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An immunological comparison of animal-grown and broth-grown shigella flexneri types lb and 3
… to possess an increased resistance to bacillary dysentery following recovery from this disease. However, shigella vaccines made from in vitro-grown organisms did not increase resistance to dysentery. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine whether or not Shigella flexneri …
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Dermatophyte Respiration Antagonism in Vitro by Juglone
… was used to cure colonial troops suffering from dysentery and severe gastro-intestinal disorders. Whether any medicinal value was obtained from the naphthoquinone in many of the aforementioned diseases is debatable, but the extract is rich in vitamins, especially vitamin C. | The green covering …
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Composition and Dynamics of the Plasma Membrane of Entamoeba Histolytica
… which have yet to be explained. Finally, amoebic dysentery, the disease caused by infection with E.histolytica, remains a problem both in the tropics and across the globe. Though sometimes labeled a "tropical disease," amoebic dysentery is more properly a disease of poor sanitation and hygiene. …
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Belle Isle: prison in the James, 1862-1865
… including pneumonia, pellagra, scurvy and dysentery. Possibly more devastating to the prisoners constitution were the psychological effects of prison confinement. So dismal were the conditions on the island that it became known by many prisoners as the "most infamous bit of land in the …
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Expression strategies for plant-based production of a vaccine adjuvant
… that protects against the disease entamoebic dysentery. The specific goal of this research was to produce ricin in tobacco as adjuvant for the vaccine. Vectors were constructed that fused the ricin coding sequence to different plant promoters and transgenic tobacco plants were generated by …
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Sustainable development and the right to clean and safe drinking water in Zambia
… waterborne diseases, such as cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever and diarrhea, and this can eventually lead to deaths and huge public expenditure on medical care. Access to clean and safe drinking water positively contributes to sustainable development.Zambia has vast water resources with …
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Etiologia da diarréia infantil na região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro: caracterização de possíveis marcadores de virulência em Escherichia coli enteropatogênica (EPEC) e de uma adesina relacionada ao fenótipo agregativo em amostras que coexpressam adesão localizada
… with persistent diarrhea and possibly with dysentery (bloody diarrhea). Finally, some typical EPEC (three) and atypical EPEC (two) strains isolated and characterized in the present study showed the AA phenotype and were isolated from patients co-infected by EAEC, thus suggesting that this …
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Functional analysis of Shigella encoded IpaH E3 ubiquitin ligases in cell-autonomous immunity
… invades the host cytosol and causes bacillary dysentery. Shigella has evolved powerful countermeasures to disarm host defense mechanisms; amongst them a family of twelve bacterial E3 ubiquitin ligases (IpaH) that are structurally unrelated to eukaryotic enzymes. IpaH ligases are injected into …
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Trimming Fat Upon Infection: Proteolytic Demyristoylation as a Novel Bacterial Pathogenic Strategy
… and are one of the leading causes of bacterial dysentery worldwide. Similarly to other gram-negative pathogens, Shigella injects effector proteins into an infected cell to control its responses. Dedicated type III secretion system delivers more than twenty effectors which highjack normal cell …
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Household capacity and "coping up" in rural Zambia : dealing with AIDS, other illness and adversity in Chiawa
… in the face of four separate adverse events, a dysentery epidemic, a drought, the introduction of fees in government health facilities and schools, and the terminal illness and untimely death of a young adult. The capacity of households to deal with the HIV/AIDS epidemic is then examined.Overall …
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Regional ileitis: a clinical and experimental study
… the condition has been discussed) Tuberculosis, dysentery, and the common intestinal organisms can be excluded as primary aetiological factors. The disease remains one of unknown aetiology. 11. Certain experimental attempts to reproduce ileitis in animals have not been successful, and as yet …
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Treponema hyodysenteriae: growth and production of hemolysin
… hyodysenteriae is the causative agent of swine dysentery, a mucohemorrhagic disease of the intestines. T. hyodysenteriae requires phospholipids and cholesterol (or cholestanol) for growth, and it produces a a-hemolysin (TH) which is induced (300 fold) by the addition of RNA core to cultures. TH …
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Synthesis of the Natural Alkaloids Angustureine, Cuspareine, Galipeine, Galipinine using α-Aminocycloalkyl Copper Reagents
… these alkaloids have been used to treat fever, dysentery and other ailments. Interestingly, These compounds have shows in vitro antimalarial activity. However, it does not appear in the literature that they have been evaluated for their potential antibiotic activity.</p> <p> The synthetic …
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Assessment and improvement of hydraulic disinfection efficiency of a live small drinking water system in South Africa
… diseases such as Cholera, Typhoid Fever, and Dysentery have been essentially eliminated in the U.S. and other industrialized countries (WHO 2017). However, these nations still experience challenges in meeting drinking water standards. In 2009, the Colorado Department of Public Health and …
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