Sentences with word «arenavirus»

Researchers around Professor Daniel Pinschewer from the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel now report that a main cause of circulatory failure upon arenavirus infection consists in the excessive inflammatory response triggered by the virus.

Robert Tesh, a colleague of Fulhorst's at UTMB who studies arenaviruses in South America, says early detection may have yet another benefit.

These little invisible beasts — whether they be RNA - based noroviruses, arenaviruses like Lassa, or influenza viruses — evolve as we do... only much, much faster.

Fulhorst is working on a rapid test to detect arenavirus infections.

The current study used a related arenavirus to decipher the underlying mechanisms.

Such a test might help future patients, Glaser says, because they could be treated with a drug called ribavirin, which fights other arenaviruses.

Like the hantaviruses, arenaviruses spread to people when they inhale dust that contains urine, feces, or saliva from infected rodents.

In 1996, Charles Fulhorst of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston and his colleagues discovered that a new arenavirus was widespread in wood rats in several western U.S. states.

Development of live - attenuated arenavirus vaccines based on codon deoptimization of the viral glycoprotein.

First they tested the museum's stored rodent tissues for arenavirus antibodies.

His current research interest at University of Rochester focuses on the molecular biology, pathogenesis, innate immune responses and vaccine development for RNA viruses, mainly arenaviruses and influenza.

He has also generated attenuated viruses as vaccine candidates, for the treatment of influenza and arenavirus infections in humans and other mammalians.

By Sola Ogundipe Lassa virus is a member of the arenavirus family.

Comprehensive panel of real - time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction assays for detection and absolute quantification of filoviruses, arenaviruses, and New World hantaviruses

The cause is now known to be an arenavirus, one of a class of rodent - borne pathogens, and its natural reservoir is a multimammate rat, so - called for its rows of mammary glands, that is ubiquitous across West Africa.

Lassa virus, a member of the arenavirus family, is transmitted from rodents to humans.

Unlike hantaviruses, arenaviruses can infect doctors and nurses who come into contact with patients» blood.

In arenavirus - infected animals, however, NO dilated the blood vessels, leading to an exudation of fluids into tissues and thus to a reduction of the effective blood volume, ultimately leading to circularity failure.

The new virus belongs to the arenaviruses, a group that includes Lassa fever in Africa and several deadly hemorrhagic fevers in South America.

The one big thing that's missing are the arenaviruses, RNA viruses that include things like Lassa, for example.

The presence of antibodies indicates the presence at one time of the corresponding, or triggering, virus — in this case, an arenavirus.