Sentences with phrase «antibodies of the same family»

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The two viruses come from the same family as several other mosquito - borne pathogens so the lab test may have detected the antibodies — possible holdovers from a yellow fever vaccination or earlier infections — and then falsely indicated he had those maladies instead of one of their viral cousins.

Zika's surface protein — the primary target of antibodies — looks extremely similar to those on dengue and West Nile virus, members of the same flavivirus family.

The antibody - based assay, developed by researchers at UC Berkeley and Humabs BioMed, a private biotechnology company, is a simple, cost - effective way to determine if a person's infection is from the Zika virus or another virus of the same family, such as dengue and West Nile viruses.