Sentences with phrase «animal host»

There are several steps between an influenza strain's emergence from its natural animal host and a large - scale human outbreak.

Therapeutic MAbs are typically made in animal host cells and assembled into Y - shaped complexes.

Certain human diseases, such as avian flu and HIV / AIDS, are known to have jumped onto our species from animal hosts.

The asymptomatic incubation period and the duration of the illnesses in various species of animal hosts is discussed along with information on additional species of Old World and New World monkeys and the domestic cat, which have been shown to be susceptible to subacute spongiform virus encephalopathies.

The white - footed mouse (top) isn't the main animal host for Lyme disease; the short - tailed shrew (bottom) and others are just as important.

We're working with animal hosts where we put human cancers in and we try to attack the telomerase.

Ideas for novel tools and methods will be broadly applicable across the many environments studied in microbiome research — the earth's soils, ocean and freshwater environments, and atmosphere; as well as animal hosts» gut and skin ecosystems.

Each new animal host to which a microbe adapts represents a new habitat.

Fleas live on blood and need a warm - blooded animal host in order to survive and breed.

As people move into formerly wild areas, local pathogens increasingly come into contact with new domesticated animal hosts — freshly arrived pigs, chickens, horses — and, eventually, humans.

Wily adversary: In September, a genome sequencing study of MERS - CoV revealed that the virus did not follow mathematically predicted patterns of transmission; it likely has transmission routes other than sick individuals, such as asymptomatic humans or an as - yet - unknown domestic animal host.

The majority of the positive samples (72 percent) were 79 - 100 percent similar to astroviruses associated with human infections; 23.5 percent of the samples were similar to mammalian astroviruses isolated from diverse animal hosts including dogs, pigs and sheep.

Escherichia coli and other bacteria may possess genes swiped from early animal hosts.

However, a direct link between these possible animal hosts, known as reservoirs, and the first people who contracted MERS hasn't been found.

He attributes the initial rise of AIDS and the recent outbreaks of SARS to viral strains that mixed and morphed into deadlier forms when their original wild - animal hosts came into closer contact with human butchers and hunters.

As temperatures warm and animals hosting infectious diseases take on a wider range, many factors come into play complicating predictions on what to expect... Read More

The grant will fund Izpisua Belmonte's lab in attempting to generate functional primate organs and tissues in vivo in a large animal host, the pig, using novel stem cell technologies his team has developed and recently discovered gene - editing technologies.

The pupae contain adult fleas that lie in wait for a suitable animal host.

In 2013 and 2014, the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals hosted Maddie's Pet Adoption Days in New York City.

Iowa Friends of Companion Animals hosts a Dog Walk in Des Moines Saturday for Puppy Mill Awareness Day.

Cuterebra larvae develop within the tissues of certain animal hosts, and during this phase of their life cycle, they are commonly referred to as «warbles».

«This study fills in a huge gap in what we know about the diversity of coronaviruses in animal hosts,» says first author Simon Anthony, assistant professor of Epidemiology in CII.

Ideally, ideas for novel tools and methods will be broadly applicable across the many environments studied in microbiome research — the Earth's soils, ocean and freshwater environments, and atmosphere; as well as animal hosts» gut and skin ecosystems.

• Confirmation of sustained human - to - human transmission, rather than transmission back and forth from animal hosts • No evidence of import or export of the Ebola virus across national borders after it was initially introduced and border controls were implemented • Evidence that natural selection within the virus quickly removed mutations that were highly detrimental to the virus, and over time removed mutations that were mildly detrimental

«Microbes can influence the behaviors of animal hosts, so it is not outside the realm of possibility that microbes could promote altruistic behaviors.»

At 4:30 p.m., the NYC Mayor's Community Affairs Unit, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Animal Care Centers of New York City and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals host a kitten and cat adoption event, City Hall Park, Manhattan.

Instead, the disease cycles are «cryptic,» meaning the spirochetes cycle quietly among ticks and animal hosts but have virtually no effect on human health.

Entirely new versions of the virus can emerge as it mixes and blends in its animal hosts.

Lastly, researchers will be tasked with developing small molecules, antibodies or other means of arming organisms to rebuff genome editors at a molecular level as well as novel ways to deliver the most promising of these inhibitors to cellular or animal hosts — orally, perhaps, or by way of a specially designed virus.

(Instead, they presumed that Plasmodium borrowed its fatty acids from its animal host.)

Dale proposes that mutualistic relationships between insects and bacteria arise as a consequence of bacteria using insects as vectors (taxis) to travel between other plant and animal hosts that they infect in the environment.

Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.

For instance, the microbe could be comfortably adapted to some animal host that it routinely inhabits without deadly consequences, but it could be maladapted to the human environment.

«To kill ticks, target their animal hosts: Luring mice, chipmunks to contact insecticide shown to reduce nearby tick presence.»

Ding joined the faculty at UCR in December of 2000 to test the other half of his hypothesis: does the B2 protein of Flock house virus suppress RNAi in its animal host?

It's also possible that Zika will find an animal host in the Western Hemisphere, providing the virus a way station of sorts until the human population is more susceptible again.

Experts think it jumped to humans from an animal host — so far unknown — and is currently capable of only limited spread among humans who are in close contact, for example, among families and to healthcare workers.

«What we think of as coral are really the animal host, symbiotic algae and symbiotic microbes all living together.

Those parasites can reproduce in human or animal hosts, but the offspring have developmental defects and die in the mosquito portion of their life cycle, Christopher D. Goodman of the University of Melbourne and colleagues discovered.

The genomic data set, with samples from people and the animal host, confirmed that viral transmission mainly occurs from rodent to human, and not between people.

«These are presumably very ancient modes of communication between the microbes and their animal hosts,» Rawls said.

Studies of related viruses indicate that some have evolved disease - free coexistence with their animal hosts

A first step is to design studies that separate the effects of microbial genes from the genes of their animal host, says Herbert Virgin, an immunologist at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in Missouri.

Now, researchers say they've found hints of a new type of foul play: bacteria stealing genes from their animal hosts.

While anthrax is caused by a bacterium that invades and kills its animal host, bacteriophages, literally «bacteria eaters» are viruses that invade and kill bacterial hosts.

In this study, the researchers chose the phage and the bacterium, but it's possible that the animal host selects specific phages to control specific types of bacteria, such as by outfitting mucins with particular sugars that those phages recognize.

«It's a novel immune system that we think is applicable to all mucosal surfaces, and it's one of the first examples of a direct symbiosis between phages and an animal host,» Barr says.

In particular, he says he is concerned that this patched - together virus might not be stable and could easily reassort with other viruses encountered in a human or animal host.