infected patient
collocation in Englishmeaningsofinfectedandpatient
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infected
adjective
uk/ɪnˈfek.tɪd/us/.ɪnˈfek.t̬ɪd/
(of a person or animal) affected by an organism that can ...
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patient
noun[C]
uk/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/us/ˈpeɪ.ʃənt/
a person who is receiving medical care, or who is cared for by a particular doctor or dentist ...
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(Definition ofinfectedandpatientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A court confinement order can isolate a patient only after theinfectedpatientignores medical advice.
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However, the infected person only had contact with aninfectedpatientand is now under observation and being cured.
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This sometimes leads physicians to prescribe the wrong anti-fungal drugs to theinfectedpatient.
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Both infected patients were male drug addicts (44 and 29 years old) and imprisoned at the time of examination.
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Furthermore, the availability of more effective treatment may influence the active search for infected patients in the population, potentially increasing demand and expenditure.
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A hospital may choose to go from a large infection-control program to a very small one in response to a steady inflow of infected patients.
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We thus ignored infected patients that were missed by all assays.
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However, despite these efforts, the number of infected patients investigated according to these guidelines and subsequently receiving antiviral treatment remains low.
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None of the people who had contact with horses, and no healthcare workers exposed to infected patients and their specimens had detectable antibodies.
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Purified proteins were then used as parasite antigens for dotting on to a single membrane strip, and used for identification of specific helminth antibodies in the sera of infected patients.
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The high risk of brucellosis in laboratory workers in this study is likely to be due to exposure to cultures or to blood samples from infected patients.
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Prior to communitybased screening surveys decisions must be made on how to inform the community of the results of the survey, and how to inform infected patients (including asymptomatic patients).
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As a precaution, the field hospital has been closed to all but similarly infected patients, and strict barrier nursing protocols have been implemented.
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Infected patients can only be given adjunct treatment, since doctors have not yet identified the active antiviral agents which would be able to fight it.
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Likewise, if their facilities for infected patients are under pressure they may not be able to accommodate holiday dialysis at a particular time.
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I have repeatedly asked how they can justify leaving that tiny group of infected patients out in the cold.
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Cost savings and increased productivity were achieved because infected patients were not occupying beds, so the experiment merits serious consideration.
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