Sentences with phrase «between vaccine viruses»

Not exact matches

Roughly a year after Brazilian doctors and researchers first suspected a link between a spate of alarming birth defects and the Zika virus, a cadre of potential vaccines are now headed for testing in humans.

«We could visualize this complex dance between the virus and the antibody and understand exactly how the virus was teaching the antibody to be a broadly neutralizing antibody,» said Peter D. Kwong, Ph.D., chief of the Structural Biology Section at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center.

In any given season, the effectiveness of the vaccine depends on how good a match there is between the viruses used in the drug's production and the strains that are actually circulating that year.

«A successful vaccine requires a fine balance between efficacy and safety — vaccines made from attenuated live viruses generally offer fast and durable immunity, but sometimes with the trade - off of reduced safety, whereas inactivated and subunit viruses often provide enhanced safety but may require several doses initially and periodic boosters.

This could be due to antigenic mismatch between the circulating influenza viruses and the vaccine strains recommended by the WHO.

During the 2014 - 15 flu season, the poor match between the virus used to make the world's vaccine stocks and the circulating seasonal virus yielded a vaccine that was less than 20 percent effective.

Their study found «a potential link between the H1N1 virus used to make the vaccine and narcolepsy.»

This result, effectively a method for blocking the spread of alphaviruses between cells, is one that could eventually lead to a single vaccine that protects against multiple viruses.

Hybridising between live vaccine strains, or a live vaccine and wild viruses, is less predictable.

Two days after challenge with 106 TCID50 of SARS - CoV, titers in mice given PBS varied between 107.0 and 108.0 TCID50 per g of tissue; one vaccinated animal in the group given the S protein vaccine (SV) at the 3 µg and the 1 µg dosage without alum yielded virus but all other animals in all other groups were culture negative for virus (figure 3B).

All groups given the S protein vaccine (SV) yielded virus after challenge and the differences between groups were significant (p = 0.002 for all groups, p = 0.023 for alum and p = 0.008 for no adjuvant, Kruskall - Wallis); also, geometric mean titers were higher for the groups given lower vaccine dosages.

To differentiate between vaccines, three vaccine preparations were simultaneously evaluated, the double - inactivated (formalin and UV) whole virus vaccine (DIV), the rDNA - expressed S protein vaccine (SV), and the previously evaluated chimeric viral - like particle vaccine (VLP) that had led to immunopathology with virus challenge [16], [17], [20].

Those antibodies could be used to develop vaccines to protect against Zika, as well as therapies to treat the virus, according to the study, which was a collaboration between researchers at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC School of Medicine.

Used previously for dengue virus studies, this cynomolgus macaque model will serve to better understand synergy between these viruses In an effort to help identify a vaccine for the Zika -LSB-...]

Ever since Edward Jenner developed the first successful vaccine against the dreaded smallpox virus, researchers have been riveted by the interplay between the body's defense mechanisms and pathogens staging an attack.

The nasal - spray version of the vaccine, called the FluMist, (which is FDA - approved for kids and adults between ages two and 49 who are healthy and not pregnant) does contain a crippled version of live flu virus.

Superstar student Eric Chen noticed some similarities between many the viruses and invented a more effective flu vaccine.

Rabies (1) is easily preventable, (2) the time between exposure and onset of the disease allows time to stop the advancing virus, and (3) the vaccines used, when timely and correctly administered, are uniformly effective.

If you do not have an early shot record for your pet, bring in your puppy to receive a dose of canine parvovirus vaccine between 14 and 16 weeks of age to develop adequate virus protection.

Your puppy needs to be vaccinated with a series of vaccines between the ages of 8 and about 20 weeks to protect him against the potentially deadly Parvo and Distemper viruses.

Unfortunately, I don't believe that any of the available tests can distinguish between the virus and the vaccine.

Canine Influenza Bivalent Vaccine — These are highly contagious respiratory viruses transmitted between dogs.

Puppies are usually given killed rabies vaccine, which uses a dead virus, when they're between 16 weeks and 4 months of age.

Likewise, while links between external cancer - causing agents — such as environmental carcinogens, exposure to sunlight, viruses, and vaccine injections — have been established in relation to various other forms of feline cancer, these factors do not appear relevant to the onset of mammary cancer in cats.

Among other benefits, breastfeeding: stimulates the release of the hormone oxytocin in the mother's body promoting bonding between mother and baby; satisfies baby's emotional needs; provides superior nutrition; helps prevent maternal breast cancer, endometrial cancer, ovarian cancer and osteoporosis; helps prevent future breast cancer in infant girls; promotes higher infant IQ; helps pass baby's meconium; provides immunization against disease; is more digestible than formula; aids in mother's post-partum physical recovery; helps protect the infant from Crohn's disease, juvenile diabetes, allergies, asthma, SIDS, hemophilus b. virus, cardopulmonary distress, ulcerative colitis, necrotizing enterocolitis, and other medical problems; enhances vaccine effectiveness, and is a natural contraceptive.