Furthermore, severe infections
from human adenoviruses are more commonly associated with older age, immunosuppression, and chronic underlying conditions such as kidney failure [4], [41].
Not exact matches
«No data
from humans vaccinated with
adenovirus 5 vectors are described in this paper,» says one of them, Dan Barouch of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School.
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.
The work skirts a problem that has cropped up in experimental vaccines made
from a similar
human adenovirus — they don't work if you've already been exposed to the natural virus.
Erlacher and colleagues isolated HSCs
from mice and infected them with a genetically engineered
adenovirus that transiently produces a
human protein called BCL - XL that inhibits BIM and BMF.
Now, a new report confirms that the Davis outbreak was the first known case of an
adenovirus jumping
from monkeys to
humans.
Adenoviruses, first isolated in the 1950s
from explanted adenoid tissue, are double - stranded nonenveloped DNA viruses that naturally infect many vertebrates, including
humans and nonhuman primates.
The significant overall sequence divergence of TMAdV
from known
human and simian
adenoviruses is highlighted by the finding that PAdV - A (porcine
adenovirus A), a non - primate mammalian
adenovirus, shared only a slightly less similar whole - genome pairwise identity to TMAdV of 47.0 % (Fig. 4).
After removal of similar viral genomes, bootscan plots of the whole genome and individual genes
from a subset representing
human / simian
adenoviruses in species A — G and all non-primate vertebrate
adenoviruses were generated.
However, recent serological surveys have found antibodies to New World and Old World monkey
adenoviruses in donor
human sera
from regions where the monkeys are endemic [14], [15].
Normal translation of
human adenovirus mRNA in cell - free lysates prepared
from abortively as well as productively infected monkey cells
Additional experiments using RNA isolated
from stocks of viruses
from different virus families showed no cross reactivity of the assay with influenza A virus, influenza B virus, rhinovirus,
human coronaviruses 229E, OC43, and NL63, and
adenovirus (data not shown).