Sentences with phrase «for emerging infectious disease»

Breitschwerdt Bartonellosis: one health perspectives for an emerging infectious disease.

«The Army was able to move so quickly in developing, manufacturing and testing a Zika vaccine because of its extensive experience with this vaccine platform and long standing investments in the understanding and mitigation of flaviviruses, like yellow fever, dating back to the founding of WRAIR,» said Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, Zika program co-lead and associate director for Emerging Infectious Disease Threats at WRAIR's MHRP.

«We're not ready for another emerging infectious disease that may disproportionately affect pregnant women or their fetuses or babies,» she says.

The perspective concludes that modern vaccine technology and improved surveillance in developing countries ultimately can help us better prepare for emerging infectious disease threats.

Much else could be written about health in the Asian Century, including the need to implement a sophisticated surveillance and control system for emerging infectious diseases.

«The comprehensive nature of this study serves as a model for emerging infectious diseases.»

He is particularly interested in genetic and host determinants of virus replication and how this knowledge can be applied towards the development of self - replicating RNA vaccine platforms for emerging infectious diseases.

«Recent events have taught the global community that promising candidate countermeasures for emerging infectious diseases, like MERS, need to be advanced early in order to prevent or respond to the potential of a growing epidemic.»

Not exact matches

The memorandum of understanding identified four areas in the life sciences where AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences will seek opportunities for sustained cooperation: emerging infectious diseases, brain disorders, cancer, and antimicrobial drug resistance.

It was clear that the Cubans are well positioned to detect emerging infectious diseases of concern to the United States, such as dengue and chikungunya, serious mosquito - borne viral diseases for which no vaccines exist.

The dramatic rise in emerging infectious disease outbreaks of international concern has created an unprecedented challenge for the global community.

Pandemic preparedness is not only critical because of the threat of a future pandemic or an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, but also because school preparedness for all types of disasters, including biological events, is mandated by the U.S. Department of Education.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

This pattern of cross-infection from animals to humans is par for the course in emerging infectious disease.

Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.

«There's an emerging infectious disease laboratory fellowship and an American Society for Microbiology laboratory fellowship, which generally last one to two years,» she adds.

Further, the materials required for the test do not require refrigeration and may be applicable in testing for other emerging infectious diseases.

The rise of modern, deadly plagues such as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for monitoring emerging infectious diseases.

And though it's not a substitute for vaccines, hand washing is critical in preventing and controlling infectious disease, writes Joel C. Gaydos of the Defense Department's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in a commentary accompanying the report.

The Zika pandemic is likely to serve as a roadmap for addressing future emerging infectious disease challenges, the authors conclude.

The UIC Epicenter for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections will study how healthcare workers can care for patients with emerging infectious diseases without putting themselves at risk.

The study will be published online April 12 in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In fact, Olshansky says, the threats posed by obesity and emerging infectious diseases such as AIDS are largely responsible for his pessimism about 150 - year life spans.

The I» Cubed also makes these tools available to the global community for the development of vaccines for tropical and emerging infectious diseases.

While it is too early to identify all of the potential ELSI issues that may emerge in this field, such considerations should be factored into the development of policy recommendations for public health and clinical practice in infectious disease, both domestically and internationally [106].

The mission of the Center for Predictive Medicine for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases (CPM) is to improve human health by conducting basic and translational research that leads to the development of effective diagnostic biomarkers, vaccines, antivirals and therapeutics for emerging, re-emerging, neglected or rare infectious dEmerging Infectious Diseases (CPM) is to improve human health by conducting basic and translational research that leads to the development of effective diagnostic biomarkers, vaccines, antivirals and therapeutics for emerging, re-emerging, neglected or rare infectiousInfectious Diseases (CPM) is to improve human health by conducting basic and translational research that leads to the development of effective diagnostic biomarkers, vaccines, antivirals and therapeutics for emerging, re-emerging, neglected or rare infectious demerging, re-emerging, neglected or rare infectious demerging, neglected or rare infectiousinfectious diseases.

More to the point, by genetically stripping dengue virus of its ability to bind 14 -3-3 epsilon, Gack has generated a crippled virus that can elicit a strong human immune response, providing a framework for rational vaccine design against emerging infectious diseases.

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Muthumani's research interest is in the area of immune approaches to emerging infectious diseases and immune therapy approaches for the treatment cancer.

The recent Ebola and Zika epidemics demonstrate the need for the continuous surveillance, rapid diagnosis and real - time tracking of emerging infectious diseases.

Pathogens include those on the NIAID Category A-C agents as well as emerging and re-emerging infectious disease organisms, each year for a period of five years.

Genome sequencing has become a powerful tool for studying emerging infectious diseases; however, genome sequencing directly from clinical samples without isolation remains challenging for viruses such as Zika, where metagenomic sequencing methods may generate insufficient numbers of viral reads.

Funding: This work was funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 / 2007 — 2013) under the project «European Management Platform for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Disease Entities» European Commission grant agreement no. 223498.

Although the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is waning, the CDC would get $ 294 million more than in 2015 to study emerging zoonotic infectious diseases, giving a total of $ 699 million for these activities.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) Division of Vector - Borne Diseases (DVBD).

In recent years, physicians, veterinarians, and other scientist have called for a ONE HEALTH approach to this emerging zoonotic infectious disease.

Awards Vaughn Larson Award, 2017 Career Development Program Fellowship, Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases, 2014 Infectious Disease Dynamics and Data - Clinic on Dynamical Approaches to Infections Disease Data Travel Award (2014) College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota - International Travel Grant - Infectious Disease Risk Assessment (2013) University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, Quinlan - Litvak Scholarship Recipient (2013) College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota - Summer Scholars Recipient (2012) Summer Scholars Points of Pride Research Poster Award - 1st Place (2012)

The One Health paradigm for global health recognizes that most new human infectious diseases will emerge from animal reservoirs.

Determining the effects of climate change on infectious diseases is complex because of confounding contributions of economic development and land use, changing ecosystems, international travel, and commerce.38 Currently, climate warming has been identified as contributing to the northern expansion of Lyme disease in North America39 and has been projected to increase the burden of child diarrheal illness, particularly in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.40 Concern has also been raised for climate links to emerging infections, including coccidioidomycosis41 and amoebic meningoencephalitis.42 Further investigation into climactic influence on infectious diseases is needed.

Public preferences for interventions to prevent emerging infectious disease threats: a discrete choice experiment