When the skin is damaged other infections can take hold more easily.

How could they simply watch as a potentially fatal infection took its natural course?

If those four don't meet the above criteria, then no further infection takes place at that time.

Most infections take place not through computer networks, he said, but instead by the physical exchange of disks.

Once infection takes place, different methods are available to control the disease.

Eden was going to need antibiotics to make sure no infection took hold.

She watched with interest as the infection took hold.

What they did not realize was that infection took place through the bite of a mosquito.

And once the infection has taken hold in a hospital like this, it is very difficult to control.

If pertussis isn't caught in the first few weeks, the infection may take three months to run its course.