Sentences with phrase «how flaviviruses»

The researchers say the culture model will greatly increase knowledge about how flaviviruses infect ticks and could become a tool to evaluate medical countermeasures against tick - borne viruses.

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«Researchers are still working to understand precisely how Zika and other flaviviruses interact with an infected person's immune system,» she said.

«We want to understand which PS receptors contribute the most to flavivirus infections and how we might block them,» Choe said.

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.»