Sentences with phrase «for infecting human»

This time, researchers are suggesting our pets may be to blame for infecting human family members.

Within just 15 weeks, only one version dominated — the type best suited for infecting humans.

«Emerging bird flu strain poorly adapted for infecting humans.»

That suggested that the spike protein is key for infecting humans, Zhao's team reports online 29 January in Science.

Not exact matches

One virus - particle doesn't change color, but as it procreates mutations in that process can make the resulting child - virus differ from the parent - virus, so that the child - virus is capable of infecting a human as well as the original host thereby opening the possibility for a new human disease.

Why wouldn't it also use wacko humans to kill children for stupid reasons like being infected with devils.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

We visited the canecutters» living quarters, smelled the stench of human waste, watched the prostitutes cavort, stuck our heads into the tiny rooms crowded with bunk beds, and spoke with an old man whose foot had been infected for several years.

For example, mothers undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and moms who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS) should not breastfeFor example, mothers undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and moms who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS) should not breastfefor cancer and moms who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS) should not breastfeed.

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

Feeding straight animal milk was often associated with severe illness and death of the baby, either because the milk was not clean due to lack of refrigeration or infected with tuberculosis, or the ingredients were unsuitable for human infants, present in too large or too small quantities.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Another important summer health problem that you should look out for are ticks, which when infected, can spread Lyme disease to humans.

«But in this case, when this virus infects cells, the virus makes its own transcription factors, and those sit on the human genome at lupus risk variants (and at the variants for other diseases) and that's what we suspect is increasing risk for the disease.»

Critics have argued that this policy led to infected animals being sold illegally for human consumption until 1990, when 100 per cent compensation was offered.

Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

By that time inadequate controls meant infected beef had been in the human food chain for years, and there were fears of a mass plague of agonising, invariably fatal vCJD.

The mutations effectively lower the threshold for what it takes for a mosquito to become infected with chikungunya, replicate the virus in its body and pass it on to humans with its bite.

No farm workers tested positive for SADS, so the disease doesn't appear to infect humans.

Needing proxies for humans, the researchers infected caged ferrets with either the original 1918 flu virus (reconstructed two years ago) or the altered form.

If the insect survives for fewer than 14 days, the malaria parasites won't have enough time to mature to the stage where they can infect humans, says Matthew Thomas, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

These animals are common hosts for the influenza virus, which comes in a wide range of strengths and types — some of which can infect humans.

For viruses, traits included how many different mosquito species they infect, whether they have ever infected humans and the severity of the diseases they cause.

It didn't take long for one infected plant to infect thousands — never through the air, never through insects, but simply by human propagation,» says Bill Zettler, a plant pathologist at University of Florida.

In people infected with HIV who develop broadly neutralizing antibodies, this antibody region — called HCDR3 — has about 30 amino acids, about twice as long as what is usual for human antibodies.

The $ 1.2 billion project aims to identify roughly 70 percent of these potential threats within the next 10 years, focusing on animals in places known to be hot spots for the emergence of human - infecting viruses.

Nonetheless, the research team suggests that keeping an eye out for the development of these mutations in humans infected with H7N9 could help trigger a timely response to prevent potential spread.

The microbe may rarely infect people, but when it does, it may kill the human host, who becomes a literal dead end for the virus as well.

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria, and in the great war between humans and pathogenic bacteria they can act as allies for both sides.

For the first time, scientists have discovered a pig retrovirus that infects human cells.

The second challenge to researching viral therapies for childhood cancers is the fact that mouse cells don't get infected with human viruses as easily as human cells.

No vaccine currently exists for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and there is no cure for AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), which currently infects 34 million around the globe.

The issue has become a lightning rod for debate because the only thing standing between H5N1 bird flu, which infects birds in half a dozen countries in Asia and in Egypt, and a nasty pandemic is that the virus is hard for humans to catch.

Such blood transfusions have not yet been systematically studied in humans for Ebola (although such transfusions have been used in limited circumstances including, reportedly, when U.S. physician Kent Brantly was infected with Ebola in Liberia and on others during an earlier outbreak elsewhere in 1995).

Adenovirus 5 has 50 or so known relatives that infect humans and so in principle could also be used as a basis for vaccines, as could one from a chimpanzee.

In a study published in PLOS ONE today, a team of researchers led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine show for the first time that female mosquitoes infected with malaria parasites are significantly more attracted to human odour than uninfected mosquitoes.

Steven M. Singer, of Georgetown University, Washington, DC, had previously noted that when mice were infected with a human Giardia, they had to be pre-treated with antibiotics in order for a robust infection to develop.

These parasites can not grow without infecting a host plant, and are responsible for some of the greatest destructions of crops in human history.

For example, through direct contact with the food or with an infected pet; through contact with contaminated household surfaces; or by eating cross-contaminated human food.

He is now initiating studies to look for the same biomarkers in human infants infected with RSV.

«It appears that pregnant women infected with Zika can pass the virus to babies in utero and that newborns also may be susceptible to infection,» said Diamond, also an associate director of the university's Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs.

Researchers have used radioimmunotherapy (RIT) to destroy remaining human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected cells in the blood samples of patients treated with antiretroviral therapy, offering the promise of a strategy for curing HIV infection.

For decades, researchers believed only primates — humans, chimpanzees and a few species of monkeys — could be infected by HAV.

The virus poses no health threat to humans, but it is highly lethal for pigs and infected herds must be culled.

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.

Scientists have no treatment for dolphins infected with the morbillivirus, an RNA virus similar to those that cause measles in humans, distemper in dogs and rinderpest in cattle.

Though agricultural intensification and climate change could pose new challenges for managing liver fluke transmission, early results in the afflicted Lawa Lake region are promising, with human infection rates in the worst - hit areas down to below 10 %, fish infection rates dropping from 70 % to below 1 %, and no infected snails detected.

Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria, and they hold considerable potential for combatting antibiotic - resistance and other threats to human health.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA — The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV - 1) responsible for most of the AIDS cases in the world infected people approximately 100 years ago, more than 20 years earlier than previously believed, according to findings presented here this week at the Evolution 2008 meeting.

But while researchers have previously been able to infect cultures of human hepatocytes with HBV, the cells» limited lifespan has made it difficult to study the virus, says Bhatia, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.