intestinal infection

collocation in English

meaningsofintestinalandinfection

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intestinal
adjective
uk
/ˌɪnˈtes.tɪn.əl/us
/ˌɪnˈtes.tɪn.əl/
relating to the intestines (= a long tube through which food travels from the stomach and out of the body while it is ...
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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 ofintestinalandinfectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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After treatment of anintestinalinfectionthree successive negative faecal specimens are required before the patient is regarded as cured.
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Secondly, measures should be taken to improve the practice of intensive farming, in order to limit the initiation and spread ofintestinalinfectionin livestock.
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Cholera is a highly infectious disease caused by a bacterium which creates anintestinalinfection.
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Oocysts with two sporocysts or individual sporocysts in human feces are diagnostic ofintestinalinfection.
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Typhlitis is anintestinalinfectionwhich may manifest itself through symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, a distended abdomen, fever, chills, or abdominal pain and tenderness.
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He had been hospitalized for two months for a spinal infection, pneumonia, and anintestinalinfection.
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Thisintestinalinfectionhas few outward signs, and is usually chronic.
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A necropsy later attributed anintestinalinfectionas the cause of death.
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It was effective in preventing most of the complications of polio, but did not prevent the initialintestinalinfection.
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During those first couple of months the incidence of intestinal infections tends to be low, no matter when the child was born.
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Everywhere, intestinal infections were powerfully linked to the summer season, and respiratory infections were dependent on the winter.
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Apparently, this factor contributes extensively to controlling risk factors for intestinal infections.
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The installation and proper use of appropriate sanitation would bring about gradual but permanent relief from these and many other intestinal infections.
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The two infection types display very different epidemiological and pathogenicity patterns which, together with the nature of the immune response to systemic and intestinal infections, may account for these differences.
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Whereas with respiratory infections, the first six months of life were central to survival, with intestinal infections these differences only became important for babies 3-8 months of age.
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The results are a harvest of water-borne diseases: cholera, typhoid and intestinal infections.
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