Sentences with phrase «human influenza researchers»

Human influenza researchers, who mainly work with ferrets and mice as models, have turned up provocative findings about the new virus in a remarkably short time.

Not exact matches

As carriers — and fertile mixing grounds — for influenza A strains that could cause illness or even pandemic in humans, hogs are important subjects for flu researchers.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

An international team of influenza researchers in China, the United Kingdom and the United States has used genetic sequencing to trace the source and evolution of the avian H7N9 influenza virus that emerged in humans in China earlier this year.

Researchers quickly discovered that the virus was a type of avian influenza, known as H7N9, never before seen in humans.

Just as flu season swings into full gear, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Texas at Austin have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which the human immune system tries to battle the influenza A virus.

Since at least 2005, researchers have been deliberately creating influenza viruses that are both highly virulent (killing several percent or more of those infected) and spread easily among humans.

ST. JULIAN»S, MALTA — The most aggressive of the circulating human flu strains is fast becoming resistant to a widely used class of flu drugs, researchers reported here last week at the Second European Influenza Conference.

As a controversial study of the H5N1 avian influenza virus published online today in Science shows, researchers are keenly interested in how mutations in the virus» genes might enable it to become transmissible in humans.

In January 2004, he was part of a team of researchers that diagnosed the first human case of H5N1 avian influenza in Vietnam.

Researchers used state - of - the - art genetic analysis to identify the precise location and the main molecular transformations that allowed a pig influenza virus to jump into humans.

To wit, a group of researchers who stumbled across influenza B virus — which was thought to infect only humans — in a stranded harbor seal.

Last week, a judge in Verona dismissed a host of criminal charges against veterinary researcher and former politician Ilaria Capua, including allegations that she deliberately set off avian influenza outbreaks that also caused a human epidemic — a crime that would have been punishable with life imprisonment if proven.

CDC researchers took ferrets never infected with an influenza virus and injected them with this year's vaccine, which has an H1N1 component of human, not swine, origin.

Duke researchers have devised a way to keep the human influenza virus from mutating during production, generating a perfect match to the target vaccine in a shorter time frame.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have identified a naturally occurring human protein that helps prevent infection by H1N1 influenza and other viruses, including West Nile and dengue virus...