Sentences with phrase «includes human pathogens»

Jingmenviruses were first described in 2014 and are related to flaviviruses — a large family of viruses that includes human pathogens such as yellow fever, West Nile and Japanese encephalitis viruses.

Not exact matches

Evolution explains the diversity of the planet's organisms, including the pathogens and the parasites that have caused so much human death and misery.

Other references cite that human milk components are, in vitro, able to degrade many pathogens including but not limited to N. gonorrheae, H. influenzae, V. cholera, H. pylori, S. flexneri, and B. pertussis.

Further, there are a great many parasitic forms, including pathogens in most plants and animals, humans included.

The newly discovered viruses appeared in every family or genus of RNA virus associated with vertebrate infection, including those containing human pathogens such as influenza virus.

«The molecule is essential for growth in a wide range of bacteria, including many human pathogens, and we are only in the early stages of understanding how it controls important processes in bacteria.»

The researchers from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health ranked the top 100 pathogens affecting humans and the top 100 affecting domestic animals using a system which, they believe, will help governments across the continent plan for risks associated with the spread of infectious diseases, including as a result of climate change, and for biosecurity.

These results firmly establish broad antiviral activity of Ci extracts against various major human viral pathogens, including previously reported activity against influenza viruses.

The chimpanzee virus could be used to make vaccines to various pathogens, including hepatitis, human papillomavirus, and HIV.

These monkeys have been shown to have a high susceptibility to infection by a variety of pathogens including Ebola virus and Lassa virus that affect humans, making marmosets useful for drug and vaccine testing.

As the discovered system is widely conserved across gram - positive bacteria — a large class that includes the notorious human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus — the study explains previous reports that identified McsB and ClpC as virulence factors.

The researchers don't know what these proteins do, but they found them in a variety of microbes, including plant and human pathogens, as well as in cellulose - degrading and bioremediation organisms.

One bacterium, from a grassy field in Maine, produced a compound with powerful abilities to kill a variety of other bacterial species, including many human pathogens.

The team found that the Lone Star virus, which is carried by the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum, is related to a group of human pathogens including Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus, which infected hundreds of farmers in China between 2008 and 2010; Bhanja virus, initially found in India; Palma virus, found in Portugal; and Heartland virus, an illness recently reported among farmers in Missouri.

Examples include: the co-evolution of flowering plants and pollinators such as bees, lizards and moths; pocket gophers and their lice; humans and intestinal microbes; and the war our immune systems wage with the pathogens that attack us.

However, there's a whole army of other factors that we need to be more concerned about than scientific collecting — including habitat loss, pathogens, human activities and climate change.

Our findings show that sex can generate phenotypic and genotypic diversity de novo in the pathogenic yeast C. neoformans with implications for other eukaryotic microbes and pathogens, including other fungi and parasites that are common pathogens of humans.

«This is important,» says Ponichtera, «because CD209a is a mouse equivalent of a molecule that in humans is called DC - SIGN, a lectin receptor on dendritic cells that senses a variety of pathogens, including the virus that causes AIDS.

She's also investigating potential drugs that can be made from algae to treat human pathogens, including Staph infections and malaria.

Ecology of marine protists, including adaptation of protists to extreme cold; photosymbiotic associations in planktonic foraminifera and radiolaria; pathogens and parasites of marine animals and humans; antibiotic resistance in marine animals.

This human microbiome includes opportunistic pathogens, microbes that do not normally cause disease in a healthy person but can provoke an infection when the person's immune system is suppressed, a concern known to occur during spaceflight.

«This is great news as it provides us with a tool with which we can examine many human hepatotropic pathogens, including malaria.

Areas of focus include three major groups of human pathogens (Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and the dimorphic fungi), obligate pathogens of diverse hosts (Microsporidia and Pneumocystis), and the wheat rust fungi (Puccinia sp) that cause current agricultural epidemics.

Two drug - resistant pathogens more commonly associated with antibiotic overuse in human medicine include Clostridium difficile and Staphylococcus aureus.

These healthy bacteria help break down food, prevent the growth of pathogens, and produce vitamins for their human host, including vitamin K and vitamin B.

«for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes — including commensals (generally harmless freeloaders) and mutualists (favor traders) and, in only a tiny number of cases, pathogens.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Such health risks include contamination of crops with pathogens, residues of agrochemicals or heavy metals from contaminated soils, air or water and human diseases transferred by mosquitos attracted by agriculture or from domestic animals to people (zoonosis).

In human waste, 88 % of the nitrogen is contained in the urine, along with 66 % of the phosphorous, according to Swedish research, while nearly all of the hazards — including bacterial pathogens — are contained in the fecal matter.

Higher water temperatures and changes in extremes, including floods and droughts, are projected to affect water quality and exacerbate many forms of water pollution — from sediments, nutrients, dissolved organic carbon, pathogens, pesticides and salt, as well as thermal pollution, with possible negative impacts on ecosystems, human health, and water system reliability and operating costs (high confidence).