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infections

n. (plural of infection English)

Usage examples of "infections".

Just to cover the bases, we tested for a number of entero viral arboviral, and adenoviral infections, and came up with zilch.

Aminoglycosides should not be used to treat secondary infections because they can sometimes have the effect of enhancing the toxin-induced neuromuscular blockade.

Despite treatment with a broad range of antibiotics, including vancomycin, the infections had proved impossible to check.

The spread of drug resistance among more and more bacteria threatened to turn the clock back more than half a century, to the days when the most trivial infections could turn lethal and when surgery of any kind was more hazardous than Russian roulette.

Senate committee investigation concluded that the bacteria had mutated into a superbug because the drug industry had aggressively promoted chloramphenicol for a wide variety of infections in Mexico and other developing countries.

I want to see more independent information made available about drug-resistant infections, so that at least we know what to expect.

In fact in the whole of Los Angeles County there are only around one hundred cases of multiresistant infections, and a large percentage of those are TB.

Their main targets were viral infections like HIV and various forms of cancer, especially leukemia.

Many more who had been facing the prospect of dangerous or crippling surgery were spared the ordeal, although in some cases the progress of their infections had advanced so far as to leave them permanently disabled.

After seeing a handful of children with runny noses, middle ear infections, and sore throats, Marissa found herself in an examination cubicle with an eight-month-old infant and a disinterested teenage mother.