Sentences with phrase «infect humans as»

Based upon the real world fungi known as Cordyceps (also known as the Zombie Ant Virus), The Last of Us is set in a world where this fungi has evolved to infect humans as well.

Some cat parasites have the potential to infect humans as well.

WHIPWORMS can infect humans as well as dogs and cats.

It is important to note that some of these parasites can infect humans as well; watch out for roundworms or hookworms, which can be transmitted from cats to humans.

Researchers assumed that African rodents must have their own menagerie of hantaviruses and that these might infect humans as well — an idea supported by studies that showed that some Africans carry antibodies that cross-react with Eurasian hantaviruses.

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.

Not exact matches

What an American doctor trained on the mainland might see as a case of the flu could actually be Chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes.

As in a human body, when an organ becomes diseased or infected, the whole body is affected, so it is in Christ's body.

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 +.)

Hepatitis is a highly prevalent infection, the World Hepatitis Alliance estimates that as many as one person in 12 worldwide may be infected with the blood - borne strains Hepatitis B or C, which are passed on in similar ways to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

The Zika virus is most commonly transmitted in humans as the result of a bite from an infected mosquito or from an infected human to another human.

When P. aeruginosa infects an actual host, such as a human, it often grows as a biofilm and encounters vastly different conditions.

Plague infects a handful of humans and domesticated animals each year as well, and the team is looking into using the vaccine in areas where humans spend time, like national parks.

An unknown component of breast milk appears to kill HIV particles and virus - infected cells, as well as blocking HIV transmission in mice with a human immune system.

The organism that causes toxoplasmosis is a parasite that uses cats as its primary host, but it can also infect humans and other mammals.

GOING VIRAL The diversity of viruses carried by such animals as rhesus macaques (one shown) hints at the number of viruses capable of infecting humans that are yet to be discovered.

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.

It can be spread to humans in the same manner as animals — through the bite of an infected mosquito.

As a result, no one can explain why the avian H5N1 flu virus has infected some 400 people worldwide, mainly in Asia and Africa, but failed so far to adapt completely to humans.

Researchers like Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, have found at least 868 human pathogens that infect both animals and humans, although some are not as fearsome as they seem.

The mutated, drug resistant H7N9 virus, however, was still able to infect cultured human cells and spread between laboratory animals as efficiently as nonmutated strains, researchers report December 10 in Nature Communications.

By connecting distant places, meanwhile, globalization permits the long - distance transfer of microbes along with their insect vectors and their human victims, as evidenced not only by the spread of HIV around the world, but also by North American cases of cholera and SARS brought by infected passengers on jet flights from South America and Asia, respectively.

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.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

O'Connor points out that Zika - infected monkeys do not perfectly reflect humans, either, and he sees the various models as complementary.

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.

Scientists are currently testing the bacterium as a potential foil against the master vector — the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes — that infect humans with dengue fever, Zika among other diseases.

Early in their study, the team noticed differences between the expected 3BNC117 abundance in humans over time, given its half - life, and the actual abundance, a discrepancy hinting that some of the antibodies may be targeting not just circulating virus particles but HIV - infected cells as well.

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 probability of this virus surviving and infecting a human is so low — it is as if Topham and lead study author, Marta Lopez de Diego, Ph.D., research assistant professor of Microbiology and Immunology, found a needle in a haystack.

In laboratory studies reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers found that these «neutralizing» antibodies prevented a key part of the virus, known as MERS CoV, from attaching to protein receptors that allow the virus to infect human cells.

Moving to an animal model, they applied the nanoparticles and hydrogen peroxide topically to the teeth of rats, which can develop tooth decay when infected with S. mutans just as humans do.

They also found elevated granzyme A levels in blood samples taken from non-human primates infected with chikungunya, as well as from human chikungunya patients.

It's not yet clear how the rodents» immune system responds when they are infected with the virus, or whether the virus mutates in the same way as it does in humans.

As these were the first pigs ever found to harbor the virus, this obviously raises the possibility that they infected humans and played a role in the origin of the outbreak.

Toxoplasma — or toxo as it is informally known — is one of the most common human parasites in the world, infecting between 30 and 60 per cent of the global population.

With gene - editing tools such as CRISPR, scientists can now eliminate immune - provoking sugars from the surface of pig cells, introduce human genes that regulate blood coagulation to prevent dangerous clots, and snip out viral sequences that some fear could infect a human host.

When a human is bitten by a rabid dog, they may become infected, but as the disease can not transmit from human - to - human, the disease hits a dead end.

Researchers have developed the first real - time system to watch directly through the microscope as Ebola - like virus particles fuse with human cells to infect them.

In addition, measuring the likelihood of contact with the infected animals is also extremely difficult as it involves understanding human and animal behaviour.

The disease emerged in North America in 1999 and circulates between birds and mosquitoes, with humans infected as bystanders.

The loss could explain why the organism only infects humans, as it may lack the tools that would allow it to get into other animals.

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

The never - before - described virus did not involve the novel H1N1 but instead picked up the surface genes from the seasonal human H1N1 virus that has long infected humans and combined them with what's known as the triple - reassortant swine influenza.

* Update, 7 December, 11:30 a.m.: This item has been updated to indicate that although Zika has been shown to infect mice, it is not clear whether it would have similar effects on pregnant animals as it may in humans.

Tupanviruses can infect a wide range of hosts, such as protists and amoebas, but pose no threat to humans, the researchers say.

«This allowed us to examine the interactions of the florescent integrase under the light microscope both in vitro in a single HIV virion as well as in a human cell infected with it.»

Some humans naturally carry this mutation (known as CCR5Δ32) and they are resistant to HIV, because the mutation alters the CCR5 protein in a way that prevents the virus from entering the T cells it tries to infect.

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.