Sentences with phrase «emerging viruses»

It's possible that emerging virus particles display nerve - specific lipid compounds.

We have developed and optimized a number of serological assays, particularly focusing on virus neutralization, to aid in studies of the prevelance and incidence of emerging viruses in the blood donor population.

So that's information we could use in the future to develop additional tests that can be used to detect other emerging viruses,» Gehrke says.

Virology is being constantly challenged with occasional outbreaks of hazardous viral infections, occurrence of newly emerging viruses and persistent infections.

At the DZIF, they are well equipped for emerging virus diagnostics.

These migratory pied imperial - pigeons in Far North Queensland, like many of Australia's 22 species of native pigeons and doves, play an important role in our ecosystems but may be at risk from emerging viruses in domestic pigeons.

But this outbreak demonstrates clearly both the threat that emerging viruses pose to the world and the need to have some sort of antiviral agent that we can use to try to treat any new viral illness.

Rockville is also where GSK has located its proposed «Biopreparedness Organisation» (BPO), a dedicated, permanent organization that will apply a «no profit / no loss» model to designing and developing new vaccines against emerging viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens that potentially pose a threat to global public health.

Globalization, environmental changes, population growth and urbanization make emerging virus diseases a major threat to public health.

«The world is facing more new emerging viruses, and we need more contribution from China,» says Gao.

The author of the classic book Plagues and Peoples also wrote a chapter titled «Patterns of Disease Emergence in History» for the 1993 book Emerging Viruses.

It has made significant contributions, not only to combating the Hendra and Nipah viruses, but to understanding other important emerging viruses.

Two recently emerging viruses in domestic pigeons in Australia may pose a significant threat to Australia's 22 species of native pigeons and doves, many of which have crucial ecosystem roles.

With the emergence of Ebola virus from bats and hantaviruses from rodents, investigators say identifying the other species infected with HAV provides novel insight into the evolution of HAV and how it spread to humans, and highlights the utility of analyzing animal reservoirs for risk assessment of emerging viruses.

At the DZIF, they are well - equipped for detecting newly emerging viruses.

Using funding from a grant to the World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses (WRCEVA) at UTMB, Rossi injected several genetically distinct varieties of laboratory mice with Zika virus isolated in Asia in 2010.

If Zika as well as other emerging viruses have unexpected effects as they reach different populations, it is a serious problem.

An editorial in the January 9 issue of The Lancet journal calls Zika an emerging virus that poses a threat to global health security.

The risk of a pandemic in any given year is low, and betting on an emerging virus's mortality is a mug's game.

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.

«The summer Olympic Games in Brazil in August heighten the need for awareness of this emerging virus,» Dr. Kamran Khan of St. Michael's Hospital wrote in a research letter published today in The Lancet.

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS - CoV) is an emerging virus, with the first case reported in 2012.

«Given development times and manufacturing requirements for new products, repurposing of existing drugs is likely the only solution for outbreaks due to emerging viruses,» the investigators noted in the paper now online in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

That handful of cases along the Texas - Mexico border likely won't be the state's last encounter with this emerging virus, according to public health reports.

«Zika virus has potential to spread rapidly through Americas: Olympic Games in Brazil in August heighten need for awareness of this emerging virus.»

They store virus samples in a reference bank sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health, called the Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses Reference Collection, at the UTMB.

An emerging virus that is causing an unprecedented epidemic in Brazil and is quickly spreading through Latin America may be responsible for a spike in severe birth defects.

Galveston is an ideal place to tackle this inside versus outside debate because the Medical Branch research center is home to the massive World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses.

«The approach ticks many of the boxes for diagnosis of emerging viruses, including the ability to rapidly redesign the test to recognise a novel virus,» she says.

Moreover, they found that distinct HA mutations are evolving in the H7N9 virus indicating that currently recommended H7 vaccines would not be effective against this newly emerged virus.

One such infection is West Nile virus, which is an emerging virus that is asymptomatic in 80 % of infections.1 However, the incident of severe infection is raised by 20 % in the over 60s, as discussed by Montgomery in this CEI review.

Researchers tap into ongoing dengue studies to improve antibody - based diagnostic tests for Zika and address unanswered questions about the emerging virus's epidemiology.

The scientific focus of the Institute of Virology lies in the investigation of emerging viruses, including arthropod - borne agents.

My major research interests include the epidemiology, natural history, pathogenesis, and laboratory evaluation of transfusion - associated infections, blood safety implications of new and emerging viruses, and immunological consequences of transfusion.

«This useful contribution underlines the value of routine surveillance of Zika and other emerging viruses: we can learn a lot from genome sequencing but that can happen only if surveillance systems are in place to detect and sequence the viruses.

Recently, reports of what seems to be an emerging virus have come from multiple states, including California, Michigan, and Ohio.

Erase all the viruses and you win, but if the screen gets filled with the emerging viruses you lose!

Science (on climate, emerging viruses, invasive species) and events (9/11/2001) have shown how deeply linked the world is.