overt infection

[‚ō·vərt in′fek·shən]

(medicine)

A host-parasite interaction that results in some injury to the tissues of the host.

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However, development of chorioamnionitis or overt infection of the amniotic cavity is associated with high maternal morbidity and sometimes maternal death.

Group B streptococci in premature rupture of membranes and maternal outcome

In general, there is normal development in the first year without overt infection.

Biologic treatment in pregnancy

Clinical relevance of positive breast periprosthetic cultures without overt infection.

Breast ecology assessment in the study of local microflora--study protocol

Fourteen days post overt infection (dpi), the rChIFN-[alpha]-water was replaced with plain water for the remaining 14 days of the study.

Super-sentinel chickens and detection of low-pathogenicity influenza virus

Another potential interpretation of these rules is that hsCRP should be used in conditions other than cardiovascular disease, where overt infection or inflammation is absent, whereas cCRP should be used in risk assessment of heart disease.

High-sensitivity C-reactive protein and cardiac C-reactive protein assays: is there a need to differentiate?

Such transmission might not be apparent in dialysis centers because it occurs less frequently than in acute care hospitals, it results in undetected colonization rather than overt infection, or because dialysis patients are frequently hospitalized and it is difficult to determine whether transmission occurred in the inpatient or outpatient setting.

Preventing transmission of infections among chronic hemodialysis patients

We have identified several factors that may have contributed to this resurgence: lowered herd immunity, increasing virus transmission outside the home, more clinically overt infection as a consequence of adult infection, and a shift in the surveillance emphasis of the vector control program.

Dengue prevention and 35 years of vector control in Singapore

Our patients had evidence of overt infections such as pyoderma, gastroenteritis or bronchopneumonia at the time of enrollment.

Cytokine response to dietary rehabilitation with curd (Indian dahi) & leaf protein concentrate in malnourished children

Such concentrations fall well below those usually associated with overt infections or inflammation but within the range that, in other studies, put apparently healthy people at high risk of heart attacks or strokes.