Sentences with phrase «human type a strains»

The pandemic virus was thus antigenically closer to human type A strains isolated during the middle 1930's than to other known influenza virus types.

Not exact matches

An infectious disease caused by type - A strains of the influenza virus that is transmittable from birds to humans.

The team focused on these antibodies, which together target the two types of influenza viruses that contain all strains known to cause disease in humans.

This may have happened when some hapless person was coinfected with both the African and Asian types — and the two strains hybridized into a new type before spreading into humans who then migrated to Europe, perhaps with the agricultural revolution 8000 years ago or so.

The study's researchers infected macrophages, a type of human white blood cell, with a highly virulent strain of tuberculosis.

Using all the existing data that was available, Andrechek, along with MSU doctoral student Daniel Hollern, analyzed 1,172 mouse mammary tumor samples from 26 different preclinical models and was able to compile one of the largest databases to show which strains of mice were best suited to study a particular type of human breast cancer.

The new family tree can also help researchers examine related groups, such as the types of plagues that currently affect only rodents (such as Microtus strains and those that have been found in Chinese marmots)-- and what genetic changes might need to occur to allow them to infect humans.

Humans are the only known hosts for Haemophilus influenzae bacteria, a family comprised of many different strains, the most well - known of which is type b, or Hib.

The detection of several strains of Treponema in the Matses suggests this type of bacteria has been present in human guts for a long time, because it was also found in the GI tracts of the Hadza hunter - gatherers in Tanzania and in nonhuman primates.

Now, however, researchers in China have developed a new type of user - interactive electronic skin, with a colour change perceptible to the human eye, and achieved with a much - reduced level of strain.

There has been a growing body of literature using rodents as models of human obesity, even though there are many confounding factors including species, strain, age of the animals, type of diet, level of fat, and type of control diet.

• Detect Zika virus in blood and urine samples within hours and distinguish between its African and American strains • Distinguish between Zika and dengue • Discriminate different types of bacteria, like E. coli • Detect cancer cell mutations • Detect antibiotic resistance genes • Read human genetic information from saliva sample

In the proposed partnership between Addis Ababa University (AAU) and J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the objective is to build genomics capacity at AAU and to apply newly developed skills towards understanding the relationships of active TB disease with Mtb strain type diversity and host components such as the human respiratory microbiome and protein - based analysis of immune responses in the respiratory tract.

Strains of the various Salmonella enterica serovars cause gastroenteritis or typhoid fever in humans, with virulence depending on the action of two type III secretion systems (Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 [SPI - 1] and SPI - 2).

In humans, this type of injury is most often seen in football players, skiers and other athletes who subject their knees to falls and strains.

Progression through the game is simply a case of killing all the humans, at which point you'll unlock the next plague type to play with, whereupon you repeat the aforementioned annihilation of humanity but with your strategy having to be altered slightly due to the unique properties of your chosen strain.