A child's fingernails should be kept clean and trimmed short to lessen the chance of bursting and infecting blisters if scratching does occur.
Although they aren't specifically gothic leather boots, Doc Martens have been infecting the goth scene since time immemorial.
As a teacher, besides the power of accurately gauging the character and capabilities of those who studied under him, he had the faculty of infecting them with his own enthusiasm, and thus of stimulating them to put forward their best efforts.
Assuring that children get sufficient rest and do not become fatigued can help in maintaining and building up an immune system that can fight off these infecting agents.
At present, there are about one hundred new cases reported per month around the world, infecting about the same number of people as die from lightning strikes.
Because there is an infectious element to the disorder, infants with necrotizing enterocolitis may be isolated to avoid infecting other infants.
Bed bug symptoms can vary from mildly irritating to extremely painful, depending on the size of the infestation and the life stages of the infecting bugs.
Both of these schizont stages release numerous merozoites, capable of infecting erythrocytes and generating the bloodstream forms of the parasite.
By infecting mosquitoes with fungi, they can drastically reduce transmission of the disease, which kills well over a million people each year.
Every time a carpenter saws fresh timber with a saw recently put through wood attacked with dry-rot, he risks infecting it with the Fungus; and similarly in pruning, in propagating by cuttings, &c.
Finally, parents need to consider who will care for their child if the child is ill, since most daycare providers will not accept ill children for fear of infecting other children.
First report of a distinct begomovirus infecting cassava from Zanzibar.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) by infecting helper T cells of the immune system.
Identification and molecular characterization of viruses infecting cucurbits in Pakistan.
Immunity is the ability of the body to resist the infecting agent.
Infection in these cases occurs in the seedling at the place where root and shoot meet, and the infecting hypha having entered the plant goes on living in it and growing up with it as if it had no parasitic action at all.
Instead of leading other nations with examples of good practices, we are infecting them with our own chronic lassitude.
It has been shown especially in the Uredineae and Erysiphaceae that many forms which can hardly be distinguished morphologically, or which cannot be differentiated at all by structural characters, are not reall y homogeneous but consist of a number of forms which are se se s g sharply distinguishable by their infecting power.
It is not sufficient to find bacteria in the rotting tissues, however, nor even to be successful in infecting the plant through an artificial wound, unless very special and critical precautions are taken, and in many of the alleged cases of bacteriosis the saprophytic bacteria in the tissues are to be regarded as merely secondary agents.
Lentiviral vectors, a subgroup of retroviruses, are capable of infecting non-dividing, but not truly quiescent cells.
Over time, the infecting germs develop resistance to most treatments, especially the safer ones.
Phylogenetic relationships among a large number of adenoviruses infecting vertebrates from fish to humans are shown in Fig.
Pus taken from the ear or sucked out of the abscess with a needle is sent to a laboratory so that the infecting bacteria can be identified.
Sick animals should be isolated to prevent infecting other dogs, and treatment consists of moderate, non-strenuous exercise, maintaining a humid atmosphere and keeping sanitary conditions.
Some users purposely release viruses after renaming the file to match a popular song, game or movie, and others innocently spread a virus infecting their own computers.
Such drugs rapidly destroy the pool of infecting organisms.
The antigens introduced during vaccination produce antibodies that protect the body against the infecting agent, despite the fact that the person does not become sick.
The cat's antibodies stop protecting the cat from infection and actually assist the virus in infecting white blood cells.
The character died due to complications from AIDS but not before infecting his partner.
The doctor recommended that the ill patient should sequester himself in an isolated room to avoid infecting others.
The most common infecting micro-organism was coagulase-negative staphylococcus, followed by Staphylococcus aureus, enterococci and streptococci.
The most common infecting organisms are the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
The nematode enters the bodies of vine weevil grubs, infecting them with a fatal bacterial disease from its gut.
The threadworm or Oxyuris vermicularis is a common parasite infecting the rectum.
These are a transient intracellular form, either rapidly infecting new erythrocytes to complete the erythrocytic cycle, or dying.
This approach is continued unless the infecting agents are identified, with their antimicrobial sensitivities, enabling specific therapy to begin.
Urine cultures to identify the infecting germs will be repeated frequently until the problem is corrected.
When the free ends of the hyphae emerge again into the air they swell up into spherical bodies which may either fall off and behave as conidia, each putting out a germ-tube and infecting the host; or the germ-tube itself swells up into a zoosporangium which develops a number of zoospores.