bacterial infection

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1. An infection caused by bacteria. The growth of many disease-causing bacteria can be halted by the use of antibiotics. (Compare viral infection.)

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Diseases caused by bacterial infections include diphtheria, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever.

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“If you’re young or immunosuppressed you don’t want any semblance of influenza virus lingering in you that could potentially come back again or worse, open the doors for a bacterial infection or something more severe.”

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Complications can include bacterial infection of scabs, and much more rarely, a swelling of the brain known as encephalitis, lung inflammation known as pnemonitis, and stroke.

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Leprosy, a bacterial infection also known as Hansen’s disease, has been curable by a combination of antibiotics since 1981, and the facility closed in 1999.

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Those weaknesses include higher child poverty, more crowded housing and daycares, uneven access to primary care and a larger reservoir of chronic viral and bacterial infection.

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Meningitis is the swelling of the meninges, the tissues surrounding the brain and spinal cord, and it is usually caused by a bacterial infection.

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