airborne infection

TB is an airborne infection which still proves fatal in about 7% of cases.

They were negative-pressure isolation units, designed to house patients with serious airborne infections.

Without the intervention of winds or drafts the distance over which airborne infection takes place is short, say 10 to 20 feet.

This shows that airborne infections are possible.

TB is usually an airborne infection.

"All I'm saying is you can't have every single one of your patients dying from a possibly viral, possibly airborne infection.

He said emergency workers immediately tested Flushing House yesterday for for airborne infections, and those tests came back negative.

It was almost as if, by conversing with her, he felt he was exposing himself to some dreadful airborne infection.

Cats become infected by catching infected rodents and then spread the bacteria to humans, often through airborne infection.

It would aid tissue regeneration, deaden pain on the patient's return to con-sciousness, and protect against same-species airborne infection.

On an airplane, people sit in a confined space for extended periods of time, which increases the risk of transmission of airborne infections.

And that is worrisome, Dr. Weyer said, because "most public health facilities in the developing world lack airborne infection control procedures."

The condition is transmitted through a variety of ways: predominantly through sporing and airborne infection, but physical contact with infected parts can also result in development.

Surgical mask or N95 mask to reduce possibility of airborne infection transmission (sometimes placed on patient instead of caregivers.

Obvi- ously it is an airborne infection, but it usually invades the upper part of the respiratory tree, not the lungs."

They had little direct contact with doctors and nurses and none with parents because of a fear of airborne infections from staphylococcus and other bacteria.

The preferred placement for patients who require Airborne Precautions is in an airborne infection isolation room (AIIR).

The designer-whichever the hell Sleepless it was-of the original vector-whatever the hell it was-had at least done everything he could to prevent uncontrollable, worldwide airborne infection.

The rest of sub-Saharan Africa is at risk, she went on, because "control of airborne infection is either totally inadequate or even absent" in virtually all of those countries.

Reich sent a sample of the bacteria to a Norwegian biologist, Theodor Thjøtta of the Oslo Bacteriological Institute, who also blamed airborne infection.

After listening to all of them in turn, the Chief Medical Officer, a dignified white-haired man named Di Asturien,said slowly, "It sounds like some form of airborne infection.

We seem to be affected by some kind of airborne infection-" He broke off as the observation ward's main screen flicked on to show the features of the irate Chief Psychologist.

EID Journal: Airborne Infection with Bacillus anthracis-from Mills to Mail Emerging Infectious Diseases 2004 June;10(6).

"I had to read some fine print in there, so I increased the air pressure inside my suit so that when I opened my visor for a closer look it would blow away any airborne infection.