Finding rhinovirus C as the cause of the 2013 outbreak in Uganda was part good luck, says Goldberg.
Not exact matches
«We
found that the innate immune response to the
rhinovirus is impaired at the lower body temperature compared to the core body temperature,» Iwasaki said.
Boeckh and his colleagues
found that
rhinovirus infection led to pneumonia less often than the other viruses.
Now, a new study led by infectious disease researcher Dr. Sachiko Seo, formerly of Fred Hutch and now a physician at the National Cancer Research Center East in Chiba, Japan, and Boeckh and published last month in the journal Haematologica has
found that like more «serious» viruses,
rhinovirus can cause pneumonia — and when it does, it can be deadly to those recovering from transplantation.
The researchers at UNICAMP
found a link between the SNP rs2107538 * CCL5 and bronchiolitis caused by RSV and RSV subtype A and a link between the SNP rs1060826 * NOS2 and bronchiolitis caused by
rhinovirus.
Unlike other viruses known to cause respiratory disease in chimps, though,
rhinovirus C is not typically
found in feces and may have been overlooked in the past.
The
findings are published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and provide the foundation for future antiviral drug and vaccine development against the virus,
rhinovirus C.
The supplement has been
found to stop
rhinoviruses from replication and could block the virus from latching on to human cells.