Sentences with phrase «infection during an epidemic»

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Its huddling, cuddling nature during hibernation would suggest the species is ripe for epidemic infection.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), conducted genetic analyses of CDV strains obtained from a range of carnivores between 1993 and 2012 and discovered that lethal CDV infections in lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a rare and genetically distinct CDV strain with three rare mutations not present in any other Serengeti strain isolated from domestic dogs or wild canids.

During the next two years, the blinding infection radiated out from this epicenter, becoming an epidemic that affected approximately 60 percent of house finches in the Eastern United States.

His research includes (i) the molecular epidemiology and epidemic history of HIV and hepatitis C, particularly in Asia and Africa, (ii) the global evolution of influenza viruses, (iii) virus and immune dynamics during chronic viral infection, (iv) the evolution of flaviviruses, and (v) the development of new techniques for tracking and predicting virus transmission.

• Successfully created and implemented a series of care plans during the epidemic breakout of a viral infection in June 2011.

These statistics point to the importance of investigating sexual behaviors associated with risk of acquiring HIV infection during adolescence as well as how best to protect adolescents from these risk behaviors, especially those groups increasingly affected by the epidemic.