Sentences with phrase «currently circulating strains»
Not exact matches
The strains currently circulating in the Western Hemisphere, which have been linked to microcephaly in infants and Guillain Barre syndrome in adults, are more closely related to the Asian lineage.
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They tested a strain of Zika virus currently circulating in human populations in the Americas and another from Africa, which is the original strain identified in 1947.
«It was not known whether any of these vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer - Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus.»
The assay offers rapid, specific, sensitive, and inexpensive detection of the Asian - lineage Zika virus strain that is currently circulating in the Western hemisphere, and can also detect the African - lineage Zika virus strain using separate, specific primers.
He noted that the strain of Zika currently circulating in the Western hemisphere is more similar to the Asian strain than the African one.