shedding
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- noun
- /ˈʃɛdɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
eliminación viral
- Sometimes the duration of shedding can continue long after an outbreak is over, or it can be intermittent, eluding screening.
- viral shedding
- duration of shedding
- asymptomatic shedding
Examples
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Admittedly, even without undue delay, presymptomatic shedding of some pathogens, e.g., norovirus, could have already occurred.
Academic text (2008) -
Acute infection with an enteric virus is usually associated with high viral RNA shedding.
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Therefore, the gastric cancer risk is high despite shedding of H. pylori.
Academic text (2016) -
All three H5 viruses were recovered, but their shedding patterns varied.
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Her research interests include norovirus genotype differences and viral shedding.
Academic text (2013) -
In another approach, researchers have long suspected that stress is linked to increased shedding of Salmonella bacteria in pigs' feces.
Academic text (1996) -
All inoculated birds shed virus, but shedding was confined to the oropharynx; no virus was isolated at any time from the cloaca.
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For other pathogens, shedding may occur intermittently, or individuals may become carriers (e.g., Salmonella).
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Prolonged low concentrations of picornavirus shedding have been demonstrated, e.g., by detectable hepatitis A virus RNA up to 3 months after acute infection (75).
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Viral shedding can occur even in the absence of visible symptoms in the infected individual.
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Morphology
Etymology
Shedding in medicine comes from the same old root scēadan, meaning 'to separate' or 'throw off'. So viral shedding is when an infected person or animal 'lets go' of virus particles, which explains how an illness can spread.