To further aggravate the situation, Cavendish is also now under attack from a recently
emerged strain of Fusarium oxysporum, known as Tropical Race 4 (TR4).
Emerging strains such as Lactobacillus rhamnosus HN001 are specifically developed to address the needs of pregnant women and infants aged 0 to 2 years.
Groups of researchers sometimes band together to tackle new threats, but detailed analyses of
emerging strains tends to happen in parallel and independently.
Flu epidemics cause up to half a million deaths worldwide each year, and
emerging strains continually threaten to spread to humans and cause even deadlier pandemics.
Their results, the researchers conclude, «show that computationally designed proteins have potent anti-viral efficacy in vivo and suggests promise for development of a new class of HA stem - targeted antivirals for both therapeutic and prophylactic protection against seasonal and
emerging strains of influenza.»
If the new combination of gene variants make the offspring better suited for growth in its current environment, that bacterium will rapidly divide asexually, outcompete its parental (or sibling) strains and become established as
an emerging strain or species in its own right.
«We are dealing with
an emerging strain of this virus.