Sentences with phrase «flaviviruses on»

In general, examining the potential effects of other flaviviruses on pregnant women and their developing fetuses is difficult, because outbreaks have been sporadic and less widespread than with Zika.

Not exact matches

Based on what they learned, they used the model to test the combination of Zika virus with all the mosquito species known to transmit at least one flavivirus.

«We worked on the dengue virus 20 years ago, and when Zika popped up in the news, we knew immediately that the two mosquito - borne viruses were related members of the flavivirus family,» Robert Linhardt, Ph.D., says.

In addition to potentially devastating Chinese duck farming and the economy that depends on it, the flavivirus could put humans at risk.

When the assay was run on patients infected with Zika virus and also on a control group of 540 patients infected by other flaviviruses or other viruses, plus healthy donors, the specificity was 95.9 percent.

Zika's surface protein — the primary target of antibodies — looks extremely similar to those on dengue and West Nile virus, members of the same flavivirus family.

WRAIR is moving forward with the purified inactivated virus (PIV) vaccine, called ZPIV, because it builds on «a type of vaccine that has been licensed before,» said Col. Stephen Thomas, an infectious disease Army physician and a vaccinologist specializing in flaviviruses, and the WRAIR Zika program lead.

He conducted one of three monkey studies last year — two are on the internet but none has been published — that failed to find ADE in animals infected first with dengue or yellow fever (another flavivirus) and then Zika.

There are already tests on the market, but none of them can tell the difference between these individual flaviviruses.

* Update, 8 February, 3:26 p.m.: At a White House press conference today to discuss the budget request, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, noted that NIH currently spends about $ 100 million per year on research into dengue, yellow fever, and other closely related viruses to Zika, which are all flaviviruses.

In this way, the flaviviruses clamp down on the cell's responses to thwart infection, including deploying antiviral proteins.

My current projects focus on understanding the molecular mechanisms of the balance between protective and pathogenic T cell responses to flaviviruses, including Dengue and Zika.

The external face of the flavivirus NS1 protein (sugars in grey balls) is exposed on infected cell surfaces where it can interact with the immune system.

Dr. Guo has been conducting antiviral research and study on the molecular pathogenesis of hepatitis viruses, flaviviruses and human coronaviruses for more than 30 years.

So far there are no reports of the Zika virus entering the U.S. blood supply, but the FDA writes that «the risk of blood transmission is considered likely based on the most current scientific evidence of how Zika virus and similar viruses (flaviviruses) are spread and recent reports of transfusion - associated infection outside of the U.S.»