portal of entry

The site at which a microbe enters the body is referred to as the portal of entry.

Three forms of human anthrax disease are recognized based on their portal of entry.

People receive the disease through a portal of entry: mouth, nose, cut, or needle puncture.

Internet search sites are power points, because they can become habitual portals of entry for users seeking information or ways to spend their money.

There are various portals of entry.

The portal of entry for a specific microbe is normally dependent on how it travels from its natural habitat to the host.

Human portals of entry.

Maintain meticulous skin hygiene and nail care to prevent a portal of entry for infection which may result in cellulitis.

Some nerve agents are readily vaporized or aerosolized and the primary portal of entry into the body is the respiratory system.

"Patients with nonemergency conditions often use emergency departments as portals of entry into the health care system, not because they require immediate care.

Their disruption of the protective tissue around the boll is a portal of entry for other insects and fungi.

The type of bacteria involved in bacteremia is greatly influenced by the infection's portal of entry and the underlying disease.

These actions can lead to the development of anal fissures or abscesses, which are portals of entry for infection.

"New York being a portal of entry, we have a large population of undocumented immigrants," Dr. Jones said.

Pharyngitis and conjunctivitis can also appear and can constitute the portal of entry for the bacterium.

Sentries called dendritic cells lie in wait at portals of entry, like the skin, ready to devour invading cells.

Respiratory and GI colonization can act as portals of entry that can lead to disseminated infection (204).

Tattooing and body waxing also make an infection more likely, because needle punctures or vacant hair follicles give the bacteria more portals of entry.

The natural route of invasion by Xcc is through the hydathodes, though leaf wounds caused by insects and plant roots may also be portals of entry.

The parasite's portal of entry is via lesions in the skin or the upper respiratory tract or via inhalation of airborne cysts.

Ulcers may act as a site for local infection and a portal of entry for oral flora that, in some instances, may cause septicemia (especially in immunosuppressed patients).

The city has long been the portal of entry of Western concepts and material goods, which have been adopted and blended with Thai values to various degrees by its residents.

Special articulating instruments and access ports obviate the need to place trochars externally for triangulation, thus allowing the creation of a small, solitary portal of entry into the abdomen.