Sentences with phrase «avian virus infection»

They also identify factors that may be involved in duck host immune response to avian virus infection, including the avian and mammalian - defensin gene families.

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In March 2013 the first human infections with the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus were reported in China, and since that time hundreds of cases have been documented.

A new version of the H7N9 avian influenza virus might be able to cause widespread infection and should be closely monitored, scientists say, although it currently doesn't spread easily between people.

In additional experiments, the scientists found that participants who had significant antibody responses did not necessarily also have significant immune system T cell responses to avian viruses, indicating that these two arms of immunity can be independently boosted after vaccination or infection; that individuals who reported receiving seasonal influenza vaccination had significantly higher antibodies to the avian H4, H5, H6, and H8 subtypes; and that participants with exposure to poultry had significantly higher antibody responses to the H7 subtype, but to none of the other subtypes tested.

According to Earl Brown, professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, the more limited ability of the avian flu virus to infect cells in the human airway thus also appears to be associated with infection of the deep areas of the lung where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

Human, avian, and classical swine lineage viruses are co-circulating in North American swine populations, generating novel reassortants and leading to hundreds of zoonotic infections (e.g., H3N2v).

Because an egg - production drop is also observed in avian flocks during eastern equine encephalitis virus (EEEV) infection [12], we chose a pair of primers specific for EEEV for RT - PCR.

From WebMD: «Lauric acid is used for treating viral infections including influenza (the flu); swine flu; avian flu; the common cold; fever blisters, cold sores, and genital herpes caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV); genital warts caused by human papillomavirus (HPV); and HIV / AIDS.

Avian influenza infections in cats appear to be associated with outbreaks in domestic or wild birds by way of eating raw meat infected with the virus.

Influenza A virus can cause infection in many mammalian and avian species and exists in multiple subtypes.

The new viruses that are created by this process are more likely to be able to jump to a new species than those created by the simple mutations of antigenic drift (which is why «swine flu» and «avian flu» are portrayed as particularly ominous in relation to human infection).

Avian flu infections may increase in consequence to increase of virus circulation.