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Immunobiotics for the prevention of bacterial and viral respiratory infections
(CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, 2013)
Female infertility associated to chlamydia trachomatis infection
(IntechOpen, 2016)
Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) is the most common agent of bacterial sexually transmitted infections, both in developed and developing countries. It clearly constitutes a major burden on public health. Screening programs and ...
Infective cycle of dairy bacteriophages
(Nova Science Publishers, 2012)
Phages follow two strategies to survive: they can either infect and lyse the host cell (virulent/lytic phages) or insert its genome into the host chromosome (prophages). In either case, the first step is the adsorption of ...
Lactic acid bacteria and respiratory health: their beneficial effects on viral infections
(CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)
Respiratory viral infections are a major global public health problem and despite the development of vaccines and antiviral drugs, these infections continue to cause frequent morbidity, and severe outcomes including death, ...
Evasion and Immuno-Endocrine Regulation in Parasite Infection: Two Sides of the Same Coin in Chagas Disease?
(Frontiers Media, 2020)
Chagas disease is a serious illness caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Nearly 30% of chronically infected people develop cardiac, digestive, or mixed alterations, suggesting a broad range of host-parasite ...
Bacterial Infections during Pregnancy: The Role of Shiga Toxin Producing Escherichia coli
(Vide Leaf, 2020)
Gastrointestinal infection with Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) causes diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), characterized by hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and acute renal ...
Fighting intestinal infections with immunobiotic lactic acid bacteria
(SM Online Publishers LLC, 2015)
Intestinal infections are the most common diseases in humans. These infections account for high morbidity and mortality and are considered to be the fifth leading cause of death at all ages worldwide. Thus, significant ...
Genotoxic effects of malnutrition and infections in argentinean children
(Nova Science Publishers, 2012)
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between malnutrition, bacterial infections and citogenetic damage. In order to obtain the frequencies of structural chromosomal aberrations (SCAs) in peripheral ...
Extrahepatic Manifestations in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
(Elsevier, 2017)
Autoimmunity and viral infections are closely related fields, and viruses have been proposed as possible etiologic or triggering agents of systemic autoimmune diseases (SAD). The hepatitis C virus (HCV), a linear, ...
Volatile organic compounds and their capacity for controlling fungal infection in humans
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022)
It is estimated that over 30% of the worlds' population has ever had a fungal infection. The most common fungal diseases are nail and skin infections, which are mainly caused by fungi of the genus Trichophyton spp., ...