chronic infection
collocation in Englishmeaningsofchronicandinfection
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chronic
adjective
uk/ˈkrɒn.ɪk/us/ˈkrɑː.nɪk/
(especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a ...
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infection
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪnˈfek.ʃən/us/ɪnˈfek.ʃən/
a condition in which bacteria or viruses that cause disease have entered ...
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(Definition ofchronicandinfectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Chronicinfection, over a period of months, was relatively infrequently encountered.
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Chronicinfectiondoes not cause disease-induced mortality, so in the chronic-phase-only equilibrium, the population is at carrying capacity.
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It may be that low levels ofchronicinfectionpersist in partially immune individuals and such infections are tolerated.
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Survivors of acute infection would developchronicinfection.
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The role of each of these types of immunity in the development of achronicinfectionis also explored.
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We present a model in which transmission from chronically infected hosts causeschronicinfectionin naive individuals, without causing acute disease - indeed ' protecting ' against it.
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Its presence re-ects infectivity but cannot distinguish acute fromchronicinfection.
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The inflammatory responses to tissue-bound eggs regress duringchronicinfectionand this may influence the relationship between acquired resistance and egg burden.
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In some animals we observed the same genotype in consecutive samples, which may be interpreted as an extremelychronicinfection.
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All the mice reinfected during thechronicinfectionshowed electrocardiographic alteration after 30 days post-first reinfection.
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Patients withchronicinfectioncausing this clinical picture were excluded.
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For disease pathology, differences in the ability of strains to establish achronicinfectionis the principal observation upon which most of the genomic studies are based.
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Taken together with our earlier work on human sera, this would suggest that these antibodies found inchronicinfectionbear no relation to the development of disease pathology.
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Survivors of acute infection developchronicinfection, which is longer-term, much less infectious and causes chronic infection upon transmission, due to a low rate of viral shedding.
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Murine encephalitozoonosis model for studying the host-parasite relationship of achronicinfection.
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A number of pathogens that causechronicinfectionare able to ' switch ' between a non-infectious latent state and an ' active ' infectious state, when conditions may be more favourable to transmission.
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