Example sentences for: infecting

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  • Recent studies have shown that the HIV-I or SIV virus rapidly penetrates vaginal, rectal, or oral mucosa attaching to and infecting primarily CD4+ T-cells where it replicates and consequently spreads to lymphoid tissue and systemic organs [ 8] [ 9, 10, 11, 12].

  • The phagocytes of such patients are deficient in their capacity to kill organisms by oxidative means because of a defective NADPH oxidase [ 17 18 ] . B. cepacia also poses a threat to patients with CF, either cocolonizing those already infected with P. aeruginosa or as the sole infecting agent [ 2 18 ] . Although rates of colonization can vary widely (between 5 and 70%), B. cepacia is isolated from sputum in only 10%-20% of patients with CF [ 2 3 ] . B. cepacia , a very diverse species, has been divided into several "classes" of bacteria, i.e., genomovars, collectively referred to as the B. cepacia complex.

  • TM3 cells expressing both epitope-tagged Ptc and Smo were derived by infecting first with an HA-Smo construct and subsequently with a Ptc-GFP construct.

  • The 1B4 cell line was isolated by infecting D3 ES cells with the U3Neo gene trap retrovirus and selecting for G418 resistant clones [ 29 ] . 1B4 cells contain a single, intact provirus as assessed by Southern blot hybridization (data not shown).

  • As a first step in the analysis of the sur2 clone, the time course of its survival in THP-1 macrophages was determined by infecting THP-1 macrophages, lysing the infected macrophages at various times after phagocytosis, and enumerating viable intracellular bacteria by plating on solid medium.


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