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Asymptomatic means 'without symptoms. So 'asymptomatic carrier' means a person who carries an infection without having any symptoms. As an example, men often 'carry' yeast in the urethra and on the penis, but do not show symptoms. However, an affected man can pass yeast to a sexual partner.
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Do a carrier exhibits symptoms of infection?
Carriers are asymptomatic; they show none of the symptons associated with their disease. This applies to both pathogenic and genetic diseases.
What is the prefix of the word Asymptomatic?
The prefix of asymptomatic is a, meaning not; if you are asymptomatic, you do not have symptoms.
What are some possible sources of cholera?
In developing countries you have many asymptomatic carriers of cholera to spread the same. In developed countries, undercooked sea food is usually the source of cholera.
Did Mary Mallon have typhoid when she came to America?
Most probably Mary Mallon had typhoid before she came to America. She probably brought the typhoid from Ireland. She was one of the many asymptomatic carriers of typhoid.
What are the symptoms to know that a woman is asymptomatic?
The word "asymptomatic" means "without symptoms." So it has no symptoms. If a woman has no symptoms, she is asymptomatic.
What is a strep carrier?
Some of the untreated or under treated patients of strep throat becomes chronic carriers. Such carriers are are asymptomatic. Few of them go for rheumatic fever. When you try to treat them with penicillin tablets, there is treatment failure in some cases. The most probable cause is probably the noncompliance. It is too human to forget the doses, when you are asymptomatic. You have to give injection 1.2 to 2.4 million units of benzathine penicillin to such patients. Culture should be repeated after ten and twenty days. This method is going to treat the infection.
Why can't natural selection eliminate cystic fibrosis allele?
The prevalence of CF carriers (meaning they carry one mutation) is 1 in 25 in the Caucasian population. Most people don't even know that they are carriers until they have a child with CF. That means that the CF allele can unknowingly be passed down through generations. Carriers are typically asymptomatic and there is evidence to support that the CF mutation protected our ancestors from fatal diseases. So natural selection actually played a role in the proliferation of CF carriers.
What is absence of symptoms?
asymptomatic
What is the characteristics of asymptomatic HIV?
no symptoms
What is the meaning of asymptomatic?
It actually means this. showing no symptoms at all.
Can an exposed 7 years asymptomatic female give the virus to a male partner?
Do you not understand what asymptomatic means? Its when a person shows no signs of sickness, which means it could be anything from the common Flu to Aids. Being asymptomatic is not a disease, it describe the signs of a virus.
Can an asymptomatic migraine cause aphasia?
A Migraine without the headache stage is called Acephalgic Migraine. Asymptomatic means without symptoms. An Acephalgic Migraine may include the symptom of aphasia, however since asymptomatic means without symptoms, that answer would be no, it does not.
