How to Use prophylaxis in a Sentence

prophylaxis

noun
  • Does this study spell the end for the idea of prophylaxis?
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 3 June 2020
  • Using the vaccine in this way is known as post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP.
    Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 6 July 2022
  • This set of lessons will take your thought process to an advanced level with sacrifices, forcing moves, and prophylaxis.
    Greta Good, Chron, 10 Mar. 2021
  • If the person were tested and found to have HIV, the responder would need to undergo a course of post-exposure prophylaxis treatment.
    Eric Teichert, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Open-air prophylaxis was available to paying clients at a sanatorium, but not the families of workers or the poor.
    Daniela Blei, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Sep. 2020
  • Post-exposure prophylaxis is the prevention of infection and disease in people known to be exposed to the virus.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Intravenous magnesium used as a prophylaxis turned out to be the answer.
    Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Humans can be treated with post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent the onset of symptoms and death.
    Cody Boteler, baltimoresun.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The government first applied for patents on prophylaxis techniques in 2006.
    New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The doctors gave the man eight doses of snake venom antiserum, tetanus prophylaxis, and antibiotics.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The White House staff knew Boulware had been working on post-exposure prophylaxis, and the president's doctor wanted to see the trial results.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
  • In clinical trials this summer, Regeneron plans to test the antibody as both a prophylaxis against and a treatment for Covid-19.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2023
  • While a vaccine hopefully provides long-term protection, a prophylaxis could help in the case of an exposure, or ongoing risk, such as to a health care worker.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 7 June 2020
  • Pepto-Bismol prophylaxis might be something to consider, or taking it at the first sign of diarrhea.
    Judy Stone, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • All employees have been treated with post-exposure prophylaxis and returned to work, the health department said.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 June 2019
  • Woodhouse added that guests who were at the zoo during the day shouldn't be concerned since bats are nocturnal, but the guests who stayed overnight recently should get rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP), which will be paid for by the zoo.
    Paul Best, Fox News, 11 July 2021
  • In July 2021, the FDA authorized the treatment for post-exposure prophylaxis.
    Verywell Health, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The studies of prophylaxis with monoclonals were done before the Omicron strain was prevalent, and Omicron is more infectious.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 4 May 2022
  • Its benefits, in terms of the relief of mania and the prophylaxis of depression, are incalculable.
    Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • Testing a bat can help determine if a treatment known as post-exposure prophylaxis, or PEP, is necessary.
    Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2022
  • When the flu hits a nursing home, patients are given prophylactic anti-viral medicine; no such prophylaxis exists for the new coronavirus.
    Matt Richtel, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The drug continues to be tested as possible prophylaxis against Covid-19 in other trials, the company noted.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 15 June 2021
  • Prior to this case, pre-exposure prophylaxis had shown to be tremendously effective.
    Noah Sather, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2016
  • The approach is called PrEP, or preexposure prophylaxis.
    NBC News, 11 June 2019
  • Out of an abundance of caution, public health officials recommended that one attack victim get a prophylaxis shot to neutralize the rabies if the virus was contracted.
    Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 17 July 2019
  • Treatment for humans who may have been exposed to rabies is highly effective and involves a series of injections given over three to four weeks, called post-exposure prophylaxis.
    Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • This strategy is referred to as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
    Sandra Rose Salathe, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The monoclonal antibody increases the risk of reactivating this virus, and the infection will have to be treated with prophylaxis.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Aureomycin spawned a class of antibiotics called the tetracyclines still used for everything from soft tissue infections to malaria prophylaxis.
    Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 5 June 2018
  • Wash any wounds with soap and water to decrease the chance of infection, and see a doctor before considering the need for a rabies vaccination, known as postexposure prophylaxis.
    Brittany Britto, baltimoresun.com, 9 May 2018

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