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tropismo di germi

English translation: affinity/predilection of the germs

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Italian term or phrase:tropismo di germi
English translation:affinity/predilection of the germs
Entered by: SJLD

11:01 Feb 28, 2009
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
Italian term or phrase: tropismo di germi
Nelle malattie degenerative ove l’acidosi è spiccata, si crea un particolare tropismo di germi verso le aree interessate dalla malattia; questi proliferando perpetuano l’acidosi tissutale, rendendo l’organismo sempre piu’ stressato.
Verona
affinity/predilection of the germs
Explanation:
literally: creates a particular affinity of the germs (or microbes) towards...

Perhaps turn it around a little - ... the germs develop a particular affinity/predilection for...

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Note added at 30 mins (2009-02-28 11:32:00 GMT)
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HIV-related neuronal injurytropism (predilection for macrophages of particular strains of HIV-1 that invade the CNS), and neurovirulence (invasion of the CNS by only a sub- ...
www.springerlink.com/index/K5X728088654546Q.pdf - Similar pages
by SA Lipton - 1994 - Cited by 60 - Related articles
Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease - Google Books Resultby Moselio Schaechter, N. Cary Engleberg, Victor ... - 2006 - Medical - 762 pages
Some bacteria, like the cholera bacillus, have strong predilections (the small ... In some cases tissue tropism can be attributed to tissue-specific ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0781753422...
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tropism (predilection or affinity) for immature red cells. For both of these viral infections, man is the only natural host and reservoir, so that the ...
www2.oakland.edu/biology/chaudhry/pics/RUBELLAPARVOVIRUS.pdf
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SJLD
Local time: 08:44
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3germ tropism
Andreea Zlotea
4 +1affinity/predilection of the germs
SJLD
5microbial migration
Mirra_
3 -1germ host tropism
Lirka


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
germ tropism


Explanation:
IMO

Andreea Zlotea
Local time: 09:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lionel_M (X): germS
4 mins
agree  Alessandra Vanni
6 mins
neutral  SJLD: any references to back this up?
9 mins
agree  Lirka: agrre, but would add "host"
8 hrs
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
affinity/predilection of the germs


Explanation:
literally: creates a particular affinity of the germs (or microbes) towards...

Perhaps turn it around a little - ... the germs develop a particular affinity/predilection for...

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 30 mins (2009-02-28 11:32:00 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

HIV-related neuronal injurytropism (predilection for macrophages of particular strains of HIV-1 that invade the CNS), and neurovirulence (invasion of the CNS by only a sub- ...
www.springerlink.com/index/K5X728088654546Q.pdf - Similar pages
by SA Lipton - 1994 - Cited by 60 - Related articles
Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease - Google Books Resultby Moselio Schaechter, N. Cary Engleberg, Victor ... - 2006 - Medical - 762 pages
Some bacteria, like the cholera bacillus, have strong predilections (the small ... In some cases tissue tropism can be attributed to tissue-specific ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0781753422...
[PDF] RUBELLA andFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
tropism (predilection or affinity) for immature red cells. For both of these viral infections, man is the only natural host and reservoir, so that the ...
www2.oakland.edu/biology/chaudhry/pics/RUBELLAPARVOVIRUS.pdf

SJLD
Local time: 08:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 1026

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Barbara Toffolon (X): You've convinced me :-)
27 mins
  -> thanks :-)
neutral  Lirka: that's the idea, yes, and it's called "host tropism"
6 hrs
  -> I have deliberately avoided using "tropism" - this is not a scientific paper
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
microbial migration


Explanation:
significa questo, che i germi si muovono verso le aree malate (attirati dalla maggiore acidità, ovvero dal pH più basso, uindi è in realta un chemiotropismo) e, a causa del loro stesso metabolismo, ne aumentano ulteriormente l'acidità
aumentando così i segnali che attirano altri microbi... facendo progressivamente peggiorare le condizioni dei tessuti interessati

http://www.google.it/search?num=30&hl=it&safe=off&q="microbi...


poiché però come ti dicevo è un tropismo di tipo chimico (pH più basso signifca maggiore conentrazione di ioni H+)

potrebbe anche essere corretto tradurlo come

'chemotaxis'
http://www.google.it/search?num=30&hl=it&safe=off&q="microbi...



però anche no perché forse significherebbe interpretare troppo il testo (insomma, a limitarti a parlare di migration sei sicura di non sbagliare :))

Mirra_
Italy
Local time: 08:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 110

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Lirka: cells migrate, germs usually do not. So are human beings, but do we migrate?
3 hrs
  -> germs are (or,made of) cells!!! BTW why don't you give a look to my links??? ......
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
germ host tropism


Explanation:
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropism

Tropism is widely used when referring to plants, but also in case of viruses and other pathogens...

Lirka
Austria
Local time: 08:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 572

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  SJLD: I don't think this is the right register for the target - obviously not pro - general public would not understand
10 mins
  -> granted, but so wouldn't the general Italian public; the source text chooses to be scientific, for some reason :)
disagree  Mirra_: it does not exist!! and ii is neither English nor "scientific" http://www.google.it/search?num=30&hl=it&safe=off&q="germ ho...
2 hrs
  -> well...then write to Wikipedia :)
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