1.   This technique has been successfully used in our laboratory for the identification of B virus DNA in previous cases of fatal B virus infection.

2.   Although doctors had given Stacy Sewell excellent chances for survival with the transplant, the risk of fatal infection always remained.

3.   Babesiosis, a sometimes fatal tick-borne infection, is found in southern New England and has symptoms similar to malaria.

4.   But Army doctors worried most at the time about what seemed a fatal infection spreading throughout his body, one impervious to known remedies.

5.   Damaged heart valves are particularly susceptible to a potentially fatal infection of the valves or lining of the heart known as bacterial endocarditis.

6.   Doctors at Brooke Army Medical Center here amputated his leg last month as diabetes threatened to trigger a fatal infection.

7.   How could they simply watch as a potentially fatal infection took its natural course?

8.   In a few cases, the fevers have been accompanied by drops in white blood cell count that have left patients open to fatal infections.

9.   In some instances the virus spreads to the heart, where it can cause potentially fatal infection.

10.   In the other case, the patient vomited and breathed some of the material into his lungs, which caused a fatal bacterial infection.