Sentences with phrase «emerging pathogen in»

In September 2005, this virus was identified by experts as a «newly emerging pathogen in the dog population» in the United States.

Babesia gibsoni is considered to be an emerging pathogen in North American companion dogs.

«Clarifying how disease outbreaks subside will help us predict, and respond to, other emerging pathogens in plants, wildlife — and in humans,» Voyles said.

Not exact matches

Consider Chan Zuckerberg's Biohub, which is embracing big hairy audacious projects like mapping every cell in the human body (with university partners Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF) and developing a «universal diagnostic test» and rapid - response team for emerging pathogens.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

The deadly pathogen first emerged in the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937, then lay dormant for about 20 years before it cropped up again in Israel in the 1950s and reappeared in Romania in 1996.

The Sigatoka disease complex is a cluster of three closely related fungi — yellow sigatoka (Pseudocercospora musae), eumusae leaf spot (Pseudocercospora eumusae) and black sigatoka (Pseudocercospora fijiensis)-- which emerged in quick succession during the last century as destructive pathogens on banana.

Globalization, changing climate, and the threat of drug resistance have conspired to set the stage for that perfect microbial storm: a situation in which an emerging pathogen — another HIV or smallpox, perhaps — might burst on the scene and kill millions before we can respond.

Other pathogens with pandemic potential are sometimes mistakenly called «flu,» including SARS and MERS, two coronaviruses that emerged in 2003 and 2012, respectively.

«We need a constellation of genes, including those for strain markers and toxins, that could be used to identify dangerous bacteria,» says Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

But ecological upheaval, burgeoning travel and trade, a changing climate, and failures in public health systems have allowed new pathogens to emerge and old ones to bounce back.

Haddow, who studies how pathogens survive in the jungle and emerge when humans encroach, had a great personal interest in Zika: His grandfather, Alexander Haddow, was one of three scientists who had isolated the virus from a rhesus monkey in the Zika Forest near Entebbe, Uganda, in 1947 and described it in a paper in 1952.

A study just released in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that the researcher, Brian Foy of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, passed to his wife the Zika virus, an obscure pathogen that causes joint pains and extreme fatigue.

This innovation promises an almost unimaginable advance in basic medicine and health — a technology that inactivates known and emerging viruses and other pathogens in the world's blood supply.

Among the affected microorganisms were three that commonly cause deadly hospital - acquired infections, including Staphylococcus aureus and two emerging bacterial pathogens, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia and Acinetobacter baumannii, that are a growing cause of infections in hospital intensive - care units.

In recent years, the parasitic protozoans Cryptosporidium parvum and Giardia lamblia have emerged as formidable waterborne pathogens.

Early in the 20th century, doctors worldwide used these bacteria - eating viruses to fight dysentery and other dangerous pathogens, only to abandon them after more effective antibiotics emerged.

The comeback of antibiotic - resistant infections «would dramatically alter the practice of medicine,» says microbiologist Alexander Sulakvelidze, a phage expert at the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

As more reports appear of a grim «post-antibiotic era» ushered in by the rise of drug - resistant bacteria, a new strategy for fighting infection is emerging that targets a patient's cells rather than those of the invading pathogens.

Other big issues include combating antibiotic resistance in the U.S., stemming the opioid epidemic that has quadrupled overdose deaths in the U.S. since 1999 and remaining vigilant against the perennial onslaught of influenza — as well as emerging threats including tick - borne pathogens.

Today, methicillin - resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strain CC97 is an emerging human pathogen in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia.

Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and in Emerging Pests and Pathogens Research Laboratory at the USDA - Agricultural Research Service in Ithaca, NY, are among many investigators working to find a solution, and their recent publication sheds light on an important strategy for controlling the spread of CLas.

The plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, is one of the deadliest pathogens in human history, sparking three major pandemics: the Plague of Justinian, which struck the Roman Empire during the 6th and 8th centuries; the second plague pandemic, which first erupted in Europe in the mid-14th-century Black Death and continued to strike the continent in recurrent outbreaks until the mid-18th century; and the third plague pandemic, which emerged in China during the late 19th century.

E. coli O104 first emerged as a pathogen in a small outbreak in Helena in early 1994.

«Snake fungal disease identified in wild British snakes for first time: Study finds emerging fungal pathogen amongst European snake populations.»

TB has emerged as the leading cause of death due to a single pathogen: deaths attributable to TB now exceed those due to HIV infection (1.5 million vs 1.2 million in 2014 according to WHO).

We nee to be vigilant in finding the mechanisms that allow these pathogens to emerge.»

Launched in 2009 as part of USAID's Emerging Pandemic Threats program, the Predict project was renewed in 2014 with a grant of $ 100 million over five years to develop a sprawling, searchable database of the zoonotic pathogens behind emerging pandemic threats in countries around thEmerging Pandemic Threats program, the Predict project was renewed in 2014 with a grant of $ 100 million over five years to develop a sprawling, searchable database of the zoonotic pathogens behind emerging pandemic threats in countries around themerging pandemic threats in countries around the world.

PCR has also seen application in the identification of emerging pathogens.

In the future, as new scientific discoveries elucidate important host - vector - pathogen interactions, novel ELSI issues might emerge; implications for individuals and society are as yet unknown and unpredictable.

Working with the infectious disease scientific community, his team developed functional genomics tools and datasets to advance ways in which systems biology is leveraged to characterize emerging and biodefense threat - related pathogens.

In this area, Sette's disease focus has shifted over the years from HIV, HBV and HCV to emerging diseases and diseases of potential biodefense concern to, most recently, diseases and pathogens relevant to worldwide global health, including dengue viruses, malaria, tuberculosis, and trypanosome infections.

Assist disease control by providing up - to - date geographical information about known and newly - emerging forms of drug resistance, by examining genetic variation in the context of how whole pathogen genomes are evolving rather than as fragmentary information about individual genetic changes or polymorphisms.

Dr. Kleinman main interest is the intersection of scientific investigation and policy development particularly in the fields of transfusion safety, emerging pathogens, and TRALI.

Dr. Lanteri was a lecturer in immunology and virology (specializing in HIV and emerging pathogens) for students attending the Master's degree program of biochemistry from the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France.

Spironucleous salmonicida is an emerging fish pathogen commonly found in the intestinal tract of salmon that often causes severe systemic infections with gross pathological symptoms and high mortality rates.

We are a consortium of laboratories using state - of - the - art structural biology methods to determine the 3 - D structures of proteins from pathogens in the NIAID Category A-C priority lists and organisms causing emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

The CPM research and discovery programs bring together a dynamic and interactive team of faculty in the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Arts & Sciences, who enjoy cross-translational approaches to address critical research questions to better understand rare, neglected and / or emerging pathogens.

A new commentary on the nature of pathogens is raising startling new questions about the role that fundamental science research on evolution plays in the understanding of emerging disease.

As a manufacturer of non-toxic ultraviolet germicidal (UVGI or UV) sanitizing technology for the animal care industry, PetAirapy works with Dr. Kowalski to identify new, existing, and emerging pathogens and how to quickly and safely eliminate them from the air and surfaces in animal care facilities and residences.

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This highly contagious virus is a newly emerging respiratory pathogen in dogs and causes a clinical syndrome that mimics «kennel cough.»

In addition to the public health and occupational health risks to companion animal owners, care takers and veterinarians, food animals also are at risk of infection with (emerging) pathogens from companion animal species.

The CAPC recommends annual testing for tick - transmitted pathogens, «especially in regions where pathogens are endemic or emerging.»

They offer their scientific knowledge on aspects such as the occurrence, diagnosis, host - specificity, virulence, risk of emergence and antimicrobial resistance of zoonotic pathogens emerged in companion animals.

[7:23 p.m. Updated David L. Smith, an associate professor at the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida, visiting scholar at Resources for the Future and an author of the Nature paper, weighed in with a strong defense of the paper in a comment, which I've reproduced as a separate document for easier reading.

Our analyses support a hypothesis that Bd is an introduced pathogen that spreads from its point of origin in a pattern typical of many emerging infectious diseases.