Sentences with phrase «against influenza»

Whether the antibodies protect against influenza now needs to be determined — no guarantee if the past is any guide.

These precautions are especially important for infants younger than 6 months of age because they can not be vaccinated against influenza viruses.

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

She noted that the Canadian researchers estimated that the flu vaccine is 55 percent effective against influenza B viruses, which typically cause more infections late in the season.

This is the largest study to date to show that maternal vaccination against influenza is feasible and effective, even in one of the world's least developed countries.

Over a few weeks, your immune system starts reacting against it and also sees the influenza proteins stuck on the surface, so it starts creating antibodies against influenza as well.

The vaccine lowers infection risk — it works very well against influenza B — and may also minimize the risk of severe infection.

Furthermore, results may encourage other research groups to use the M2 channel of influenza virus as therapeutic target against the influenza A virus.

Older travelers, in particular, may wish to consider preventive measures against influenza and pneumonia.

In 1942, after the discovery of influenza B, a bivalent vaccine, which protected against influenza A and influenza B, was produced.

In the current study, researchers in the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program injected 75 normal volunteers with an experimental bird flu vaccine against influenza subtype A / H7, and then collected antibody - producing white blood cells from them.

«Given these results in cells and mice, it may be worthwhile to consider that patients receiving, or who may receive, Amphotericin B - based therapies be appropriately vaccinated against influenza virus.

Balazs AB, Bloom JD, Hong CM, Rao DS, Baltimore D. Broad protection against influenza infection by vectored immunoprophylaxis in mice.

The purpose of this study was to gain an in - depth understanding of parents» experience and views of vaccinating their four to six - year - old child against influenza at school and at the general practice (GP).

The other remedy I recommend has been shown to have activity against both Influenza A & B. Remember, during any given flu season, the circulating flu virus could be predominantly one or the other.

FYI - If your pet has previously received a canine influenza vaccine, that vaccine protects against the influenza strain H3N8, but does not protect against the new strain, H3N2.

Three types of siRNA against influenza A (H1N1) virus infection were encapsulated in hybrid carriers.

In the sinus cavity the microcontainers degrade and release RNA into cells, which results in the transfection and therefore enhances immunity against influenza virus.

The results showed that elderberry syrup is also effective against both influenza A and B virus infections.

Antiviral drugs amantadine and rimantadine, which for years were the most widely used against influenza A viruses, plugged the M2 pathway like bathtub stoppers, preventing reproduction.

Vaclac Vetvicka, Jana Vetvickova, «Glucan supplementation enhances the immune response against an influenza challenge in mice,» Ann Transl Med, 2015 Feb; 3 (2): 22.

, Dietary wolfberry supplementation enhances the protective effect of flu vaccine against influenza challenge in aged mice, 2014

Of 14 antisense oligonucleotide sequences (ASOs) tested against Influenza A virus in a study by University researchers Luis Martinez - Sobrido and Douglas Turner and their collaborators, five were most effective.

FLULAVAL is an influenza virus vaccine indicated for active immunization of adults 18 years of age and older against influenza disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and type B contained in the vaccine.

«However, I strongly encourage parents not to wait to vaccinate their children against influenza until the FluMist supplies are restocked.

The chess battle against influenza will have to continue for a while longer, but for now hopes are high that playing the M2 vaccine might be the right strategy to checkmate the virus.

(The current version of the M2 vaccine would protect only against influenza A, the type that has launched pandemics.)

This one - two punch protected the test subjects against influenza A viruses that had emerged in 1934 and 2007, and other experiments showed that the antibodies it generated successfully neutralized a wide variety of flu strains.

A report in June in the same journal described tests of the vaccine in mice against influenza B viruses; the animals were protected from normally lethal doses of flu.

High - dose influenza vaccine is 24 percent more effective than the standard - dose vaccine in protecting persons ages 65 and over against influenza illness and its complications, according to a Vanderbilt - led study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

For the current study, the NIAID scientists infected mice with a «reporter» virus after the mice had been immunized against influenza or treated with anti-influenza antibodies either before or three days after infection.

The female sex hormone estrogen has anti-viral effects against the influenza A virus, commonly known as the flu, a new study in American Journal of Physiology — Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology reports.

The authors support the judicious use of antiviral drugs as a last line of defense against influenza to avoid the spread of dual resistance, which is already circulating in H1N1 viruses in humans.

«Our findings suggest that different prostaglandins have different roles in antiviral immunity and that specific inhibition of PGE2 will be an effective therapy against influenza viral infection by boosting immune responses.»

Current antiviral drugs against influenza, like Tamiflu, cripple critical proteins in the virus itself, but influenza often develops resistance to them.

As they predicted, the resulting molecule, called HB36.6, protected cells against influenza virus infection in vitro (i.e., in test tubes).

In studies that looked at its efficacy against influenza strains A & B, Elderberry was found to shorten the duration of the flu from the typical 7 days to 4 days.

Foals can be vaccinated against influenza from 3 - 4 months of age but many veterinarians now wait until 5 months.

This invention encompasses recombinant poxvirus vectors encoding and expressing influenza antigens, epitopes and immunogens that can be used to protect dogs against influenza.

In the new analysis, investigators sought to understand the role of pre-existing anti-HA stem antibodies in protection against influenza using data from a healthy volunteer influenza challenge trial that took place in 2013 at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.

Some strains of Agarikon, for example, show strong activity against influenza viruses; others do not.

The article «Hybrid inorganic - organic capsules for efficient intracellular delivery of novel siRNAs against influenza A (H1N1) virus infection» was published in Scientific Reports.

Because dogs do not maintain long duration of immunity against influenza, it is important to vaccinate them annually.»

Besser said officials were already taking preliminary steps toward manufacturing a vaccine against the influenza strain responsible for swine flu.

«My number - one advice is immunize your child against influenza,» says Dr. MacDonald.