• A focus of infection is a place containing whatever epidemiological factors are needed for transmission of an infection. Any focus of infection will have...
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    2013 (about 17% of all deaths). The branch of medicine that focuses on infections is referred to as infectious diseases. Infections are caused by infectious...
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  • focal infection theory was widely accepted in medicine by the 1920s. In the theory, the focus of infection might lead to secondary infections at sites...
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    blood may attach to the surface of the catheter, transforming it into a focus of infection. If a central line infection is suspected in a person, blood...
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    1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (category History of medicine in the United Kingdom)
    health and the construction of improved sanitation facilities beginning in the mid-19th century. Later, the term "focus of infection" started to be used to...
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    Palatine tonsil (category Lymphatics of the head and neck)
    the entry of exogenous material through mucosal sites. In consequence it is a site of, and potential focus for, infections, and is one of the chief immunocompetent...
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    body's response to infection causes injury to its own tissues and organs. This initial stage of sepsis is followed by suppression of the immune system...
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    A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection that affects a part of the urinary tract. Lower urinary tract infections may involve the bladder (cystitis)...
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    hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection (from the Greek nosokomeion, meaning "hospital"), is an infection that is acquired in...
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    Hookworm infection is an infection by a type of intestinal parasite known as a hookworm. Initially, itching and a rash may occur at the site of infection. Those...
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    accumulate and cluster to sites of inflammation. Being highly motile, neutrophils quickly congregate at a focus of infection, attracted by cytokines expressed...
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  • Portuguese fómite or fômite, retain the full stem. Focal infection theory Focus of infection Disease vector Cramer, Lorraine (1 September 2011). "Fomites...
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    as the clap, is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Infection may involve the genitals, mouth, or rectum...
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    primary infection is surrounding the lobar fissures, either in the upper part of the lower lobe or lower part of the upper lobe. If the Ghon focus also involves...
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    viral infection caused by the herpes simplex virus. Herpes infections are categorized by the area of the body that is infected. The two major types of herpes...
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    streptococcal infections are a number of infections with Streptococcus pyogenes, a group A streptococcus (GAS). S. pyogenes is a species of beta-hemolytic...
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    lobbying against gay bathhouses blaming them for being a focus of infection encouraging the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), in particular HIV...
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  • frequently unresponsive to corticosteroid therapy, but clear when the focus of infection or infestation is treated.: 81  Therefore, the best treatment is to...
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    H, Sickbert-Bennett EE (May 2016). "Emerging infectious diseases: Focus on infection control issues for novel coronaviruses (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoV...
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    number of gastric and extragastric disorders. Gastric disorders due to infection begin with gastritis, inflammation of the stomach lining. When infection is...
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    "Bartonella infections diagnosed in the French reference center, 2014–2019, and focus on infections in the immunocompromised". European Journal of Clinical...
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    condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. Without treatment...
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    suspected of harboring infection. Testicles, ovaries, gall bladders, stomachs, spleens, cervixes, and especially colons were suspected as the focus of infection...
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    HIV/AIDS (redirect from HIV infection)
    treatment the infection can interfere with the immune system, and eventually progress to AIDS, sometimes taking many years. Following initial infection an individual...
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  • (hRSV) and human orthopneumovirus, is a contagious virus that causes infections of the respiratory tract. It is a negative-sense, single-stranded RNA virus...
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  • Post-acute infection syndromes (PAISs) or post-infectious syndromes are medical conditions characterized by symptoms attributed to a prior infection. While...
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  • Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (category Healthcare-associated infections)
    are resistant to the carbapenem class of antibiotics, considered the drugs of last resort for such infections. They are resistant because they produce...
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    by chronic mycoplasmal infections occur gradually and are both morphological and genetic. The first visual sign of infection is when the cells gradually...
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    density of usage including both groups of cattle-owners and the wild animals. By May 1896, the vast Clober farm had become a focus of infection with immediate...
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    "focus of infection" would be used to describe sites, such as the Broad Street pump, in which conditions are good for transmission of an infection. John...
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