Sentences with phrase «against circulating strains»

Antiviral flu medications like Tamiflu, Relenza and Rapivab also remain quite effective against all circulating strains of flu.

We found that the mutations in two amino acids out of more than 300 in one key region of the hemagglutinin protein were enough to lower efficacy to 19 percent against all circulating strains.»

Not exact matches

A part of the research will include analyzing exactly why this year's flu vaccine proved so ineffective against the most common strains circulating (the shot was just 25 % effective against influenza A strains).

These included the past two flu seasons in which vaccines offered only limited protection against the most widely circulating strain of influenza A.

Both drift and shift make these proteins unrecognizable to the antibodies present in people that were previously inoculated against the flu virus, which now circulates as more than 90 strains.

«It was not known whether any of these vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer - Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus.»

A small number of people infected with HIV produce antibodies with an amazing effect: Not only are the antibodies directed against the own virus strain, but also against different sub-types of HIV that circulate worldwide.

In preliminary experiments not reported in the Nature paper, Korbinger said he has in vivo evidence that ZMapp works against the strain now circulating in West Africa.

A paper published recently showed that the H3N2 vaccine strain with egg - based mutations was less able to mount an immune response against the circulating H3N2 strain.

There are four strains circulating in the world, and antibodies for each of the strains interact with each other in such a way that if a vaccine does not protect against all forms simultaneously, it could backfire and put a patient at risk of severe disease if exposed to the other types.

The new bivalent vaccine helps protect dogs against the two strains of the virus known to be circulating in the U.S., CIV H3N2 and CIV H3N8.

«Pfizer Animal Health is committed to monitoring swine influenza viruses and bringing to the market vaccines that help protect against SIV strains circulating in pork production systems today,» said Kuhn.

Flublok was about 44.6 percent effective against all circulating influenza strains, not just the strains that matched the strains included in the vaccine.

The closer the match between the circulating strains causing disease and the strains in the vaccine, the better the protection against influenza.