infectionin‧fec‧tion /ɪnˈfekʃən/ ●●○ W3 noun 
The baby had an ear infection.infection of/in an infection of the bladder► see thesaurus at illness2[uncountable] when someone is infected by a disease: Always sterilize the needle to prevent infection.COLLOCATIONSverbshave an infection· I think you’ve got an infection, so you need to rest.suffer from an infection· He was suffering from an infection of the lungs.get/develop an infection· She got a nasty throat infection which meant she couldn’t sing.treat an infection· Antibiotics are used to treat the infection.fight/combat an infection· A new drug is being developed to combat the infection.spread an infection (also transmit an infection formal)· Pregnant women can transmit the infection to their unborn child.an infection spreads· The infection spread to her chest.an infection clears up (=goes away)· Although the infection cleared up, he still felt weak.be exposed to an infection· He was exposed to the infection while he was travelling in India.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + infectionserious/severe· He was admitted to hospital with a serious infection.slight/minor (=not serious)· She’s suffering from a slight infection.nasty informal (=a serious infection)· He’s got a really nasty infection.acute medical (=a serious infection that develops suddenly)· The disease usually occurs as an acute infection of the throat.an ear/eye infection· She was given antibiotics for an ear infection.a chest infection (=an infection in the lungs)· I’ve got a bad cough, but the doctor says it isn’t a chest infection.a throat/kidney etc infection· He developed a severe throat infection.a bacterial/viral/fungal infection (=caused by bacteria, a virus, or a fungus)· Antibiotics are not effective against viral infections.a secondary infection medical (=an additional infection that happens as a result of the main illness)· Often, scratching the skin because it is itchy results in secondary infection.phrasesthe source of an infection· Doctors are trying to locate the source of the infection.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- If you don't clean the wound properly you could get an infection.
- Roz was suffering from a throat infection and could hardly talk.
- The antibiotic ointment will prevent infection.
- Diseases and infections were spread through poor sanitary conditions and efforts were slowly made to combat this.
- I then got a bad infection in my left eye which my doctor suggested was due to the contact lens.
- If the infection is unchecked, peritonitis may follow and gonorrhoea becomes a life-threatening emergency.
- Maternal infection can result in fetal infection and damage and is estimated to occur in 0-1-0-5% of pregnancies in the United Kingdom.
- Men have brought infection home to their wives, and the disease has penetrated the entire society.
- Rheumatic fever as a child, so the infection settled there, on the weakest spot.
- Secondly they act on E coli, bacteria responsible for the vast majority of urine infections.
- The principal clinical signs in heavy infections are rapid weight loss and diarrhoea.
THESAURUS
something wrong with your health which makes you feel ill: · Her husband was in hospital for six months with a serious illness.
a particular illness, especially one that spreads to other people easily or that affects one part of your body: · childhood diseases such as measles and chickenpox· heart disease
an illness that is caused by bacteria or a virus: · His cough got worse and worse and became a chest infection.
a health problem that affects you permanently or for a long time: · a medical condition such as asthma· a heart condition
[usually after a noun] something that is wrong with a particular part of your body or your health in general: · a serious back problem· health problems
[singular, only after a noun] illness or pain that affects a particular part of your body: · I’ve had a bit of stomach trouble.
formal an illness that prevents a particular organ of your body from working properly, or affects the way you behave: · a liver disorder· a blood disorder· Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder.
Longman Language Activatoran illness a health problem that you are suffering from which makes you feel ill: · She died yesterday after a long illness.suffer from an illness: · People are often too embarrassed to admit that they have suffered from any form of mental illness.recover from an illness: · 80% of patients now recover completely from this illness and are able to lead perfectly normal lives.contract an illness formal (=get or begin to have an illness, especially a serious one): · Doctors believe he may have contracted the illness while he was in Africa.minor illness (=one that is not serious): · Minor illnesses such as colds are usually best left to get better by themselves.terminal illness (=one that cannot be cured and causes death): · Should doctors always tell patients that they have terminal illnesses such as cancer?serious illness (=one that makes you very ill): · You are allowed time off work only in cases of serious illness or bereavement.
a particular illness that has a medical name: · The most common symptoms of the disease are a high temperature and spots all over the body.· Thousands of people in this area are dying from hunger and disease.catch a disease (=get a disease from another person): · Anyone can catch the disease -- not just homosexual men or drug addicts.suffer from a disease (=have a disease): · She suffers from a rare disease of the nervous system.infectious disease (=easily passed from one person to another by breathing): · Travellers to India are advised to get vaccinated against infectious diseases such as typhoid before they go.contagious disease (=easily passed from one person to another by touch): · Childhood diseases such as measles and chickenpox are highly contagious.fatal disease (=one which causes death): · Malaria is still a common disease in West Africa and is often fatal.heart/lung/kidney etc disease: · Smoking is a major cause of heart disease.
a small living thing that causes infectious illnesses, or a type of infectious illness: · the virus that causes the common cold· He could be carrying the AIDS virus.· It is estimated that over thirty million people are now infected with the virus.· a vaccine which protects against Hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus which is transmitted sexually or by sharing infected needles.· She thinks she picked up some kind of mystery virus while she was on vacation.
informal an illness that people catch very easily from each other but that is not very serious: pick up a bug (=get a bug): · I think I've picked up the bug that's been going round the office.stomach/tummy bug (=illness affecting the stomach): · Gemima's been off school with a tummy bug this week.catch a bug: · Young schoolkids are always catching various bugs.
an illness that is caused by bacteria and that affects one part of your body, such as your ears, throat, lungs, or skin: · If you don't clean the wound properly you could get an infection.throat/ear/lung etc infection: · Roz was suffering from a throat infection and could hardly talk.
a problem that affects someone's health permanently or over a long period of time: · People with your condition should not smoke.suffer from a condition: · Diane suffers from a rare heart condition which means she has to take drugs all the time.
formal an illness of condition, especially one that affects a particular part of your body: · The medicine was supposed to cure all kinds of ailments, ranging from colds to back pains.· The most commonly reported ailment among VDU operators is eye-strain.minor ailment: · Patients who often complain of minor ailments might have something more important on their minds.
an illness that prevents part of your body from working properly or affects the way you behave, especially one that is permanent or continues for a long time: eating/personality disorder: · Children with eating disorders such as anorexia need close supervision.stomach/liver/skin etc disorder: · Minor stomach disorders are common when travelling abroad.· Eventually after weeks of tests they discovered I had a rare liver disorder.disorder of the liver/stomach/brain etc: · The hospital specializes in treating disorders of the brain.
an illness that affects a particular part of your body, especially one that is not very serious - used especially by doctors or in medical books: · The cream is normally used for treating minor skin complaints.· Hay fever is a common complaint in spring and summer.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs a viral infection
· I think you’ve got an infection, so you need to rest.
· He was suffering from an infection of the lungs.
· She got a nasty throat infection which meant she couldn’t sing.
· Antibiotics are used to treat the infection.
· A new drug is being developed to combat the infection.
(also transmit an infection formal)· Pregnant women can transmit the infection to their unborn child.
· The infection spread to her chest.
(=goes away)· Although the infection cleared up, he still felt weak.
· He was exposed to the infection while he was travelling in India.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + infection· He was admitted to hospital with a serious infection.
(=not serious)· She’s suffering from a slight infection.
informal (=a serious infection)· He’s got a really nasty infection.
medical (=a serious infection that develops suddenly)· The disease usually occurs as an acute infection of the throat.
· She was given antibiotics for an ear infection.
(=an infection in the lungs)· I’ve got a bad cough, but the doctor says it isn’t a chest infection.
· He developed a severe throat infection.
(=caused by bacteria, a virus, or a fungus)· Antibiotics are not effective against viral infections.
medical (=an additional infection that happens as a result of the main illness)· Often, scratching the skin because it is itchy results in secondary infection.
phrases· Doctors are trying to locate the source of the infection.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· Every time I get a cold I get a chest infection too.
(=in someone’s body)· The cancer had spread to his brain.
a viral infection· The fever was caused by a virus infection.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Other groups with possible relative deficiency would be those with malabsorption and acute or chronic infection.· The rare acute infection shows dyspnoea and violent cough, with white-yellow, occasionally bloody, sputum.· Taylor suggests that in more than 50% of cases of acute H pylori infection, hypochlorhydria lasts for several weeks.· The amount of diarrhoea in acute cholera infection is also very variable.· This gave way to an acute infection of the liver, and on 9 February, 1883, he died.· Survivors not treated with acyclovir often report significant neurological deterioration over the years after the acute onset of infection.· In contrast, an IgG and IgA response to this antigen has been reported in children with acute infection.· By contrast, we found no reduction in deaths attributed to acute lower respiratory infections in the vitamin-A-supplemented group.
· Several cases of spontaneous remission in acute leukaemia have been described in association with bacterial or viral infections.· One caterpillar was mushy, presumably the victim of a virus or bacterial infection.· Bacterial and Viral Infections Foals can suffer a variety of bacterial or viral infections in the first fourteen days of life.· Goizueta had been released from the hospital Sept. 22 but was re-admitted last week because of a bacterial throat infection.· Its almost miraculous effectiveness in controlling and reversing an otherwise lethal bacterial infection in mice was demonstrated in Oxford in the 1940s.· For many years, doctors believed that the lower temperature could reduce the chance of bacterial growth and infection.· No correlation was found between lysozyme content and resistance to bacterial infection.· Before this, childhood brain lesions were often due to the uncontrolled spread of bacterial infections.
· Other groups with possible relative deficiency would be those with malabsorption and acute or chronic infection.· Examples include patients with chronic infections, inflammation, malignancies, and liver disease.· Many of these diseases take the form of persistent or chronic infections.· Mild hypercalcemia has been reported in chronic infections such as tuberculosis and some fungal diseases.· There were no IgA antibodies to Giardia heat shock antigen, however, in any of these children with chronic infection.· In addition, these patients with chronic infection unlike those who clear the infection have no IgA response to Giardia heat shock antigen.· Little is known of the fundamental aspects of the immunology of chronic infection versus acute infection in giardiasis.· Hypogammaglobulinemia and depressed IgG to surface antigens of Giardia have been suggested as factors contributing to chronic infection.
· This greyish film can be mistaken for fungal infection.· This is a fungal infection of the brain.· By mixing the varieties intimately within the field, the spread of a fungal infection can be drastically slowed.· Bacterial and fungal infections almost always occur at the site of an earlier wound.
· The principal clinical signs in heavy infections are rapid weight loss and diarrhoea.· Successive progeny from the same dam often shown heavy infections.· In heavy experimental infections the most severe signs have appeared at 6-12 weeks after infection when egg-laying is maximal.· In these, migration through the lungs in heavy infections may result in pneumonia and death.· In heavy infections there may be severe cirrhosis and ascites and, in rare cases, liver failure and death.· However in heavy infections coughing is marked, and is accompanied by dyspnoea and nasal discharge.· Plasma pepsinogen levels are above the normal of 1.0 i.u. tyrosine and usually exceed 2.0 i.u. in sheep with heavy infections.
· According to the World Health Organization, 80,000 to 160,000 HIV infections occur annually through unsafe injections.· Y., a poor and urban community with one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the United States.· In some villages HIV infection is cited as the main reason for girls not finishing their education.· Another is to portray HIV infection as not such a terrible thing.· Until 1997, there were just eight known cases of HIV infection in Tver.· Immediate treatment has reduced the incidence of HIV infections in this group by as much as 79 percent.· Blood banks have routinely screened for HIV infection since 1985, when the first blood tests for the virus became available.· Yet paradoxically, so did the prevalence of HIV infection.
· Most human infections are associated with exposure to aquatic environments or to recent consumption of seafood.· Potential sources of human infections change as society evolves.· New approaches need to be developed to contain this epizootic and prevent human infections.· Epidemiologic evidence showing that human papillomavirus infection causes most cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
· We are told this was caused by a mild kidney infection.· If left untreated, it can cause a mild infection in the baby when it is born.· In mild to moderate infections, there are no clinical signs during the pulmonary phase of larval migration.
· In some parts of the world new infections are rising almost off the scale.· After that, the rate of new infections has no place to go but down.· The third, fourth and fifth weeks of the 1967 outbreak saw the numbers of new infections climb most steeply.· As this happens, the rate of new infections has to slow.· The move to care for people with mental health problems in the community presents new infection control challenges. 2.· In the hospital, I got new infections.· At that point new infections can begin to rise again.· Yet this strategy, too, runs the risk of increasing rather than decreasing new infections.
· Mortality is 3-4%, mainly owing to opportunistic infections and pulmonary emboli.· Those on triple combination also had half as many incidents of cancers or opportunistic infections and were generally healthier.· Four out of five recent trials reported that incidence of life-threatening opportunistic infections did not rise despite the potential immunosuppressive actions of corticosteroids.· She was horrified to see how quickly the opportunistic infection took hold.· Prevention of opportunistic infections could provide both individual and public-health benefits.· This was in 1990, and I had opportunistic infections, OIs as they are called.· A year ago John Holman was near death, an opportunistic infection ravaging his intestines.· Diabetes predisposes the patient to fungus or other opportunistic infections involving the intracranial contents.
· They may catch other infections such as measles or chicken-pox, with serious consequences due to their deficient immune system.· The same applies to influenza and many other infections.· When the skin is damaged other infections can take hold more easily.· Constant exposure to seawater, far from having a healing effect, actually caused boils and other skin infections.· Do not do dressings if you have a cold, cough or any other infection.· As with all the sexually transmitted diseases, the possibility of other concurrent infection must be considered and excluded.· The person who is tonguing could catch other infections from this activity, such as gonorrhoea.
· Most reports describe primary HIV-1 infection among groups other than misusers of intravenous drugs.· It characteristically occurs many years after the primary infection and has protean manifestations in addition to the gait ataxia.· Symptomatic, primary HIV-1 infection is generally characterised by a mononucleosis-like illness, with or without aseptic meningitis.· But the odds seem somewhat lower than they were during primary infection.· Diarrhoea occurs coincident with emergence about a week after primary infection and up to one year after reinfection.
· One explanation for this finding would be that H pylori infection is acquired by people throughout their lives.· Taylor suggests that in more than 50% of cases of acute H pylori infection, hypochlorhydria lasts for several weeks.· Most investigators have observed that H pylori infection causes a greater percentage increase in the postprandial gastrin than fasting gastrin.· H pylori infection was eradicated in 32 patients and persisted in 18 patients.· H pylori infection was a strong predictor of ulcer recurrences.· Increased basal serum gastrin is related to both atrophy and H pylori infection but not to ageing perse.· The mechanism by which H pylori infection stimulates the release of G17 is not known.· The strong association between antral tumours and chronic active gastritis suggests the possibility that H pylori infection may have a pathogenic role.
· As part of our management we advised parents to avoid, when possible, their child's exposure to respiratory infections.· Everybody from here to Wesley and back has upper respiratory infections.· Subjects - 256 Infants and children under 3 years of age with symptoms of respiratory infection.· People who develop meningococcal meningitis may have a preceding upper respiratory infection.· Systems of treatment based on simple clinical signs have been developed and validated for the management of respiratory infections.· It can be triggered by viruses, including those that cause upper respiratory infections, such as the influenza virus.· With further respiratory tract infections there remains a tendency to impaired hearing, but this is transient.· We are not aware of reports from developing countries of the outcome of hypoxaemia in children with acute lower respiratory tract infection.
· In severe infections, diarrhoea is the most prominent clinical sign.· In severe infections the entire body will be covered with the parasites, and the fishes will appear almost white.· The youngsters had a severe chest infection when he arrived ten days ago which delayed treatment.· The main cause of death is the destruction of the gut lining, which results in severe infection.· Once in a while some one has such a severe throat infection that they form a large boil behind the tonsils.
· If there is any pain or a burning sensation, tell the doctor, just in case you have a urinary infection.· Our Tom lets Coffey put his hand on his nether regions to cure his urinary infection!· It is now doubtful whether urinary tract infection has any role to play in the production of this renal lesion.· Nine percent of patients had at least one urinary tract infection.· Sometimes a urinary tract infection is associated with this condition so treatment with antibiotics can help.· It therefore had only a limited use in the oral short term therapy of urinary tract infections.· There is also a connection between day wetting and urinary infections.
· Several cases of spontaneous remission in acute leukaemia have been described in association with bacterial or viral infections.· One of Davis' sisters, Patty, died at age 10 of a viral blood infection.· Your Blue Ring Angel is suffering from a viral infection called Lymphocystis.· Headaches due to viral infections may be accompanied by fever, muscle aches, and malaise.· Bacterial and Viral Infections Foals can suffer a variety of bacterial or viral infections in the first fourteen days of life.· In some cases, these can be treated with antibiotics, which are useless against viral infections like influenza and colds.· Newly imported Angelfish sometimes suffer from a viral infection called Lymphocystis.· Such a trigger could be a viral infection or a traumatic life event, says Lane.
NOUN· A sick Gooch should not have played in Calcutta with a debilitating virus which developed into a chest infection.· They include poor growth, recurrent chest infections, chronic diarrhoea and skin infections.· She had been admitted suffering from a chest infection.· A chest infection turned into pneumonia.· The commonest symptom is a persistent cough, with frequent bouts of chest infection.· The youngsters had a severe chest infection when he arrived ten days ago which delayed treatment.· The Castleford star took medicine for a throat and chest infection before the second Test in Auckland.· Because there's a constant risk of chest infection, antibiotics are usually given at the first sign of a temperature.
· Infection control policy An infection control policy should be available to staff, emphasising he importance of the safe disposal of sharps.· Call that hospital and speak with the infection control nurse.· Not only hospitals require an infection control policy.· Similar efforts are needed to promote the appropriate use of antimicrobial drugs and infection control procedures in nursing homes.· Careful planning of facilities, writing of infection control policies and staff training ensures continuity of care and is cost-effective.· The move to care for people with mental health problems in the community presents new infection control challenges. 2.
· Ears and nose produce a horrible, stinking, green discharge; ear infection with rupture and suppuration.· The single-dose ceftriaxone treatment has not yet been approved for ear infections by the Food and Drug Administration.· The best approach is to use acute remedies as soon as the ear infection starts.· In fact, an ear infection alone can cause sudden severe pain as fluid builds up in the middle ear.· She had an ear infection and she told the doctor, but it was the first I'd heard of it.· A lingering ear infection got him grounded.· Hepar may be needed after Mercurius. Ear infections with a bloody, purulent, cheesy smelling discharge and sticking pains.· Take care to be gentle, since these ear infections are intensely irritating and painful.
· He contracted a lung infection which did not respond to treatment.· Loi promised to keep warm, and Joe started him on a course of antibiotics to try to clear the lung infection.· Only in the last two weeks had the malaise set in, ever since his lung infection had taken hold.· Meanwhile Davis continued to suffer with a string of health problems, including lung infections and a hip replacement.· Garlic's reputation for curing colds and lung infections has also gained orthodox medical recognition.
· Explants showed excellent preservation of crypt architecture, with an infection rate and crypt necrosis rate of less than 1%.· It has managed to keep its infection rate below 2 %.· However, even a 10 % infection rate is a total disaster for any society.· Hepatitis B has become a hyper-epidemic with a 60 % infection rate.· Then, suddenly, infection rates will drop fast.
· Last year in London's Kilburn National he gargled his way through an entire set with a bad throat infection.· Goizueta had been released from the hospital Sept. 22 but was re-admitted last week because of a bacterial throat infection.· This complete category of woe would suggest a bacterial throat infection needing antibiotics.· Indeed, he was a sickly child, succumbing with monotonous regularity to ear and throat infections.· Laura has a strain and Grant a throat infection.· Once in a while some one has such a severe throat infection that they form a large boil behind the tonsils.
· With further respiratory tract infections there remains a tendency to impaired hearing, but this is transient.· Gastrointestinal tract infections 1, 377 0. 6· It is now doubtful whether urinary tract infection has any role to play in the production of this renal lesion.· Gastrointestinal tract infections 985 0. 4· We are not aware of reports from developing countries of the outcome of hypoxaemia in children with acute lower respiratory tract infection.· Are women getting education and treatment for reproductive tract infections?
· This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection.· This resurgence of measles disease underscored the need for new assays to characterize measles virus infections.· When the disk is found to be free from a virus infection it is given an electronic signature code.· He is suffering from an ankle injury and a virus infection.· But some virus infections can follow another path, other than the acute cycle of replication.· The mechanism responsible for secretion or intracellular retention of pre-S peptides in chronic hepatitis B virus infection is uncertain.· There is at present no reliable marker to determine whether autoimmunity or hepatitis C virus infection is the major disease process.· Over half the patients who acquire acute hepatitis C virus infection develop chronic hepatitis.
· Recurrent oral and vaginal yeast infections occurred in two patients receiving cyclosporin and oral thrush occurred in one patient receiving placebo.· Well, there are jokes about yeast infections, frostbite, liver transplants and cereal variety packs.· Thrush Thrush is caused by a yeast infection.· For example, yogurt has been shown to reduce yeast infections in women.
VERB· The other two women had negative results at baseline and acquired infections that had persisted for 36 months at time of biopsy.· Such networks may also provide a more effective means for monitoring occupationally acquired infections in hospital and laboratory personnel.· The more often that this happens, the more likely is any individual to acquire infection.· Horses are thought to acquire infection mainly from pastures contaminated by donkeys during the summer months.
· Most instances have been associated with infection, blood transfusion, or termination of pregnancy.· Of these 10 patients, seven had no symptoms classically associated with tuberculous infection.
· Such changes, when caused by trichomonal infection, are rapidly reversible with anti-protozoal treatment.· Unlike necrotizing fasciitis, the toxic shock caused by strep infection was virtually unheard of 10 years ago.· It's tempting to squeeze but by doing so you can cause infection and scarring.· The other camp thought we were there to hurt people on purpose, to cause infections and maim people.· If left untreated, it can cause a mild infection in the baby when it is born.· This process, known as animal recycling, causes a low-level infection to become dramatically amplified.· Their importance, like that of cytomegalovirus, lies in their propensity for causing serious perinatal infection.· It can be triggered by viruses, including those that cause upper respiratory infections, such as the influenza virus.
· A sick Gooch should not have played in Calcutta with a debilitating virus which developed into a chest infection.· Three of the disulfiram implanted patients developed wound infections.· Jonadab always relied on the leaves for treating any horse which developed an infection or chill in the bladder.· After an unsafe and unsanitary procedure, Rosie developed a raging infection.· Subjects who developed a symptomatic infection of the upper respiratory tract were retested while ill and again one month later when asymptomatic.· Now he's in the Churchill Hospital after developing an infection.· Possibly she had pulled her stitches, or had developed an infection in them.
· The plan is a first step in addressing the threats to health in the United States posed by emerging infections.· Expand the use of Sentinel Surveillance Networks to complement other surveillance methods for detecting and monitoring emerging infections.· These foundations support the infrastructure needed to address the ongoing, but often changing, threats from emerging infections.· Our vulnerability to emerging infections was dramatically demonstrated in 1993.· Clearly, emerging infections can affect people everywhere, regardless of lifestyle, cultural or ethnic background, or socioeconomic status.· Current systems that monitor infectious diseases domestically and internationally are inadequate to confront the present and future challenges of emerging infections.· Better understanding of animal reservoirs and vectors of infectious agents is important in anticipating and controlling emerging infections.· Evaluate vaccine efficacy and the costs and benefits of vaccination programs for emerging infections.
· Leslie's body was fighting off an infection known as toxoplasmosis.· They also provide some zinc, helpful to the immune system for fighting infection, and a wide array of B vitamins.· That's enough to provide 100 antibiotic tablets to fight infections and sufficient vaccine to protect four children from polio for life.· Meanwhile I was to fight off infection.· When white blood cells are damaged, your ability to fight off infections is reduced.· These antibodies remain, ready to fight a true infection.· This virus affects the body's defence system so that it can not fight infection.· Normally white blood cells fight off and kill infections.
· Vascular access may increase the risk of infection but cannulas are not usually colonised by organisms originating in the gut.· These populations are at increased risk for emerging infections, and their medical management is complex and costly.· It also can increase the chance of infection.· There have been conflicting reports concerning the form of gastrin that is increased in H pylori infection.
· If a further infection occurs in some one who has already suffered from scabies, the course of events may be very different.· About 8, 500 new infections occur daily with one of ten known subtypes.· But the charity stresses that infection can occur on first contact with an infected partner or needle.· Women get kidney stones most often during that same age period as a result of an infection that occurs with pregnancy.· In lambs, patent infections first occur in early summer, but the heaviest infections are usually seen in autumn.· A second weakness is that even when infection does occur, illness is postponed for many years, perhaps even decades.· Bacterial and fungal infections almost always occur at the site of an earlier wound.· An alternative explanation is that familial infection is occurring from a point source.
· It is therefore vital to control fleas if you are to prevent infection by this species of tapeworm.· Mackowiak theorizes that this evolved to quickly kill badly infected organisms to prevent epidemic infection within species.· In hospital Andrew suffered serious side-effects when he was given a drug to prevent infection.· Activities i. Determine which behaviors prevent or foster emerging infections and how to promote or discourage these behaviors.· The rash application of strong antiseptic solutions to prevent or ward off infection is another rare cause of urethritis.· Alexander said that careful personal hygiene and good eating habits are the best ways to prevent infection.· The wounds of both eyes and rootstocks should be dusted with charcoal or sulphur to help prevent infection.· Flu shots can not prevent infection with other viruses.
· It would seem reasonable to assume that measures aimed at treating calculi in these patients may reduce the frequency of infection.· But there is a third strategy that might reduce infection in relationships.· Zoos have been advised by the Ministry of Agriculture to take steps to reduce the risk of infection.· For example, yogurt has been shown to reduce yeast infections in women.· In the past decade attention has turned towards selective decontamination of the gut in an attempt to reduce these nosocomial infections.· Babies are being infected, and available drugs could reduce the rate of infection.· This reduces the risk of infection - it doesn't eliminate it.
· In the first incident, it still has not been shown that the infection derived from inside the hospital.· For example, yogurt has been shown to reduce yeast infections in women.· Successive progeny from the same dam often shown heavy infections.· Epidemiologic evidence showing that human papillomavirus infection causes most cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.· The results showed that an infection was present which was sensitive to ampicillin.· It also shows that the infection increases both basal and stimulated acid secretion.
· But these dangerous people-they can spread the infection without knowing it-are very few indeed.· Because mucous can contain viruses and bacteria, it can spread infections to others.· The speed of modern communications would spread the infection all over the world within days.
· Your Blue Ring Angel is suffering from a viral infection called Lymphocystis.· Many suffered from infections and disease.· She had been admitted suffering from a chest infection.· At other times, he suffered serious infections and pneumonia and became very depressed.· Newly imported Angelfish sometimes suffer from a viral infection called Lymphocystis.· Several were suffering from diarrhoea or infections.· Three rats in the low fibre diet group suffered from middle ear infections and were removed from the study.· They frequently suffer chest infections and have a low life expectancy.
· This is not to say that such a person can not transmit infection.
· While interferon production was certainly induced by this compound its efficacy in treating viral infections bas so far been disappointing.· Loi felt very unwell, and Joe was trying to treat the infection with a different type of antibiotic.· The injection is not a conventional vaccine as it treats the infection rather than being used as a preventive measure.· The second is to treat the infection promptly when discovered.
WORD FAMILYnouninfectiondisinfectantadjectiveinfectiousinfectedverbinfect ≠ disinfectadverbinfectiously
1[countable] a disease that affects a particular part of your body and is caused by bacteria or a virus: The baby had an ear infection.infection of/in an infection of the bladder► see thesaurus at illness2[uncountable] when someone is infected by a disease: Always sterilize the needle to prevent infection.COLLOCATIONSverbshave an infection· I think you’ve got an infection, so you need to rest.suffer from an infection· He was suffering from an infection of the lungs.get/develop an infection· She got a nasty throat infection which meant she couldn’t sing.treat an infection· Antibiotics are used to treat the infection.fight/combat an infection· A new drug is being developed to combat the infection.spread an infection (also transmit an infection formal)· Pregnant women can transmit the infection to their unborn child.an infection spreads· The infection spread to her chest.an infection clears up (=goes away)· Although the infection cleared up, he still felt weak.be exposed to an infection· He was exposed to the infection while he was travelling in India.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + infectionserious/severe· He was admitted to hospital with a serious infection.slight/minor (=not serious)· She’s suffering from a slight infection.nasty informal (=a serious infection)· He’s got a really nasty infection.acute medical (=a serious infection that develops suddenly)· The disease usually occurs as an acute infection of the throat.an ear/eye infection· She was given antibiotics for an ear infection.a chest infection (=an infection in the lungs)· I’ve got a bad cough, but the doctor says it isn’t a chest infection.a throat/kidney etc infection· He developed a severe throat infection.a bacterial/viral/fungal infection (=caused by bacteria, a virus, or a fungus)· Antibiotics are not effective against viral infections.a secondary infection medical (=an additional infection that happens as a result of the main illness)· Often, scratching the skin because it is itchy results in secondary infection.phrasesthe source of an infection· Doctors are trying to locate the source of the infection.