It was founded upon the discovery that a large number of viruses are capable of invading and establishing latent infections in nervous tissue.
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Since latent infections on cuttings cannot be readily detected, cuttings should be kept at a relatively high temperature to ensure maximum symptom expression.
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About one in ten latent infections eventually progresses to active disease which, if left untreated, kills more than 50 % of those so infected.
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After primary infection of BoHV-1, the latent infections can possibly reactivate, with or without clinical symptoms, under conditions of stress or by experimental methods.
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Eliminating TB in the United States would require identifying and curing people with latent infections, says the IOM panel, which recommended starting with immigrants.
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"A latent infection is not like an ongoing illness, it's just that the virus is never completely cleared from the body, " he explained.
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Persons with these findings, if they have a positive tuberculin skin test reaction, should be considered high-priority candidates for treatment of latent infection regardless of age.
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If the children who tested positive for latent infection take their medication faithfully for nine months, there's little chance they will develop active TB, health officials said.
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Under current U . S . policy, prospective immigrants must get chest X-rays to detect active infections, but not TB skin tests, which can detect latent infections.
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A study published this week in The Lancet medical journal indicated that the new test detected latent infections more accurately than the standard skin-prick test used for a century.
