And hospital-acquired infections will contribute to the deaths of 70,000 more people, far more than the 44,190 Americans who died of breast cancer in 1997.

This suggests infections from these species may contribute to the increased mortality rate in bed bugs due to traumatic insemination.

Stress, skin injury, infection, and use of alcohol can all contribute to symptom flare-ups.

Inadequate food intake, infections, psychosocial deprivation, the environment, and perhaps genetics contribute.

Historians agree that massive infection, which resulted from unsterile practices, contributed to Garfield's death.

Bacterial infections contribute to their formation by increasing the pH of the urine through the urease enzyme in dogs.

This suggests that even infection with virus types that have not been strongly linked to cancers might sometimes contribute to cancer development.

Such infections contribute to the spread of the disease.

It was determined that bacterial infection had contributed to her death.

Viruses or chronic infections may contribute to prostate cancer.