Example sentences for: person-to-person

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  • Since human infection with Cryptosporidium parvum was first documented in 1976 [ 1 ] , this protozoan parasite has been recognized worldwide as a major cause of diarrheal disease in humans [ 2 ] . In healthy, immunocompetent persons, C. parvum causes a self-limited diarrheal illness (cryptosporidiosis); however, in persons with severe immunosuppression, particularly those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and who have developed acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the diarrhea can be prolonged, severe, and life-threatening [ 3 4 ] . Currently there are no effective chemotherapeutic agents against cryptosporidiosis [ 5 ] . Cryptosporidium oocysts are found in the feces of infected humans, livestock, and wild animals [ 6 ] . Humans acquire the infection through person-to-person or animal-to-person contact, ingestion of fecally-contaminated water or food, or contact with fecally-contaminated environmental surfaces [ 7 ] .

  • In addition, studies that aim to assess the impact of travel to endemic countries will also need to conceptualize the myriad causal pathways and the possible role of each route of transmission, e.g. waterborne, foodborne, person-to-person, comprising the complex web of factors that are responsible for traveler's diarrhea.

  • The three person-to-person fecal exposures were: contact with child-care settings, contact with individuals with diarrhea, and exposure to diapers or diapered individuals.

  • Sexual contact was retained as a separate category apart from other person-to-person fecal exposures since, unlike exposure to diapers and individuals in diapers, it may or may not involve exposure to feces.

  • Its relative virulence and potential for person-to-person transmission distinguishes Mycobacterium tuberculosis . Persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are particularly susceptible to tuberculosis, either by the reactivation of latent infection or by a primary infection with rapid progression to active disease [ 1 2 3 4 ] . The annual incidence rate of tuberculosis in Colombia during 1998 was 19.


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