Sentences with phrase «filovirus infections»
«The work on antibodies isolated from survivors of filovirus infections, including Marburg and Ebola, was started by James Crowe's laboratory at Vanderbilt University together with our laboratory about 3 years ago,» said virologist Alex Bukreyev, professor at UTMB and co-corresponding author.
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«These data provide the basis for understanding the immune response to filovirus infections in humans,» said Bukreyev.
Not exact matches
The largest outbreak on record for the filovirus family was caused by Ebola virus in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, resulting in more than 28,000 infections and more than 11,000 deaths.
«Our results provide a roadmap to developing a single antibody - based treatment effective against not only infections caused by Ebola Zaire virus, but also caused by related filoviruses.»
The question is, can these antibodies protect against a future infection with the virus and related filoviruses?