Sentences with phrase «influenza b»

My weekend was ok, a quiet one with my son who is recovering from a very nasty Influenza B!

The new test found viruses in the four children that the other test missed, including influenza B, parechovirus, herpes virus 1 and varicella - zoster virus.

There are two types of influenza affecting people - influenza A and influenza B and those at most risk include older people and people with underlying health conditions are advised to contact their GP to request the flu vaccine.

In a placebo controlled double blind study of influenza B, a complete cure was achieved within 2 — 3 days in nearly 90 % of the elderberry - treated group compared with at least 6 days in the placebo group.

, Inhibition of several strains of influenza virus in vitro and reduction of symptoms by an elderberry extract (Sambucus nigra L.) during an outbreak of influenza B Panama, 1995

She noted that the Canadian researchers estimated that the flu vaccine is 55 percent effective against influenza B viruses, which typically cause more infections late in the season.

Additional experiments using RNA isolated from stocks of viruses from different virus families showed no cross reactivity of the assay with influenza A virus, influenza B virus, rhinovirus, human coronaviruses 229E, OC43, and NL63, and adenovirus (data not shown).

Several companies and federal agencies have already contacted Kawaoka about the influenza A and influenza B backbones.

To develop the influenza B vaccine virus backbone, Kawaoka's team screened influenza B viruses for random genetic mutations that led to improved replication.

«It may still not be perfect, but it will at least be substantially better than current vaccines,» says Kawaoka, who notes no one else has successfully tried to produce high - yield influenza B vaccine virus before now.

Besides H3N2, the two other flu strains causing illness are H1N1, an influenza strain that caused the 2009 - 2010 swine flu pandemic but is now a regular human flu virus, and an influenza B strain.

Several companies and federal agencies have already contacted him about the influenza A and influenza B backbones, Kawaoka says, and he is hopeful the systems can be adopted by vaccine manufacturers and grown in cell culture facilities already available in the United States and Japan.

It typically includes two influenza A strains and two influenza B strains.

Influenza A virus (IAV) and influenza B virus (IBV) are responsible for seasonal epidemics of respiratory illness among humans.

Influenza B however, the other type that can cause flu in humans, has never been found in animals.

To wit, a group of researchers who stumbled across influenza B virus — which was thought to infect only humans — in a stranded harbor seal.

According to WHO statistics, 300 million people are vaccinated against the flu each year, receiving an immunization with a cocktail of weakened strains of influenza A (varieties H3N2 and H1N1), along with the influenza B virus to protect against a full infection.

The vaccine lowers infection risk — it works very well against influenza B — and may also minimize the risk of severe infection.

An analysis of 10 years» worth of data on human influenza B viruses has shed new light on the pathogen which can cause the seasonal flu.

Influenza B Yamagata viruses evolve at a much slower than influenza B Victoria viruses.

A new study, led by Assistant Professor Vijay Dhanasekaran and Associate Professor Gavin Smith from Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke - NUS), has presented the largest comparative analysis of human influenza B viruses undertaken to date.

Findings offer new insight into the evolution and epidemiology of this highly infectious virus, and reveal how the two influenza B virus lineages fundamentally differ from each other and from the influenza A virus lineages.

Using X-ray crystallography, performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, Cusack and colleagues were able to determine the atomic structure of the whole polymerase from two strains of influenza: influenza B, one of the strains that cause seasonal flu in humans, but which evolves slowly and therefore isn't considered a pandemic threat; and the strain of influenza A — the fast - evolving strain that affects humans, birds and other animals and can cause pandemics — that infects bats.

Commonly administered influenza vaccines are generally composed of two influenza A lineage viruses — but only one influenza B lineage virus.

For example, influenza A H3N2, which was the culprit in the Hong Kong flu pandemic of 1968, spreads more quickly than influenza A H1N1 or influenza B because it mutates more quickly than the others.

Studies have shown that flu vaccines work better at protecting against influenza B or influenza A H1N1 viruses than influenza A H3N2.

H3N2 influenza viruses typically hit this age group particularly hard and have been associated with higher mortality than infections by H1N1 or influenza B viruses.

Findings from this study of flu vaccines delivered by a small needle intradermally parallel earlier results that found adding a strain of influenza B could improve the effectiveness of a flu vaccine nasal spray and a traditional intramuscular vaccine that is injected as a shot in the arm muscle.

Flu vaccines can be trivalent — containing two strains of influenza A and one of influenza B — or quadrivalent — including two strains of A and two of B. Both are available to fight influenza.

Standard testing failed to detect common, everyday viruses: influenza B, a cause of seasonal flu; parechovirus, a mild gastrointestinal and respiratory virus; herpes virus 1, responsible for cold sores in the mouth; and varicella - zoster virus, which causes chickenpox.

Weiner, Elliott and colleagues studied the DNA sequences for two human monoclonal antibodies — one able to broadly target influenza A viruses and one able to broadly target influenza B viruses — with collaborators at Inovio and MedImmune.

It's possible that getting sick with one type of influenza A virus would offer some modest protection against another type of influenza A, but it probably wouldn't give you any protection against the influenza B virus, Schaffner said.

Annual flu vaccines are formulated to protect against one type of influenza B and two strains of influenza A, one H3N2 strain and one H1N1 strain.

The flu vaccine is showing higher effectiveness for H1N1 and influenza B strains (67 and 42 % respectively for all age groups).

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It was better against the other viruses, at 67 % against H1N1 and 42 % against influenza B viruses, she said.

In 1942, after the discovery of influenza B, a bivalent vaccine, which protected against influenza A and influenza B, was produced.

The trivalent vaccine combines two strains of the influenza A virus and one strain of influenza B in order to prompt your immune system to develop antibodies for all three versions of the flu.

The experts aren't shocked by this — particularly bad outbreaks of flu are often trailed by another strain of the illness known as «influenza B» — but it's a bummer for the rest of us who were hoping we were finally out of the woods when it came to flu misery.

The other is Scanaflu, an upper respiratory infection tool that uses the smartphone as a reader to determine if you have Strep A, Influenza A, Influenza B, adenovirus, or RSV — a common, cold - like virus.

Not exact matches

While more than 100 different virus types can cause a common cold, only influenza virus types A, B, and C cause flu.

Your baby will be getting the second dose of the 5 - in - 1 injection which protects against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio and Hib (haemophilus influenza type B).

Benito - Fernanndez J. Impact of rapid viral testing for influenza A and B viruses on management of febrile infants without signs of focal infection.

In Canada, vaccines prevent illnesses such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), rotavirus, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, pneumococcal and meningococcal diseases, and human papillomavirus virus (HPV).

Cochi SL, Fleming DW, Hightower AW, et al. «Primary invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease: a population - based assessment of risk factors.»

I'll be honest: we refused some vaccines for our oldest son, including the Hepatitis B and Haemophilus Influenza Type B shots.

Hib, or Haemophilus influenzae type b, can also cause serious joint and skin infections as well as other less common infections.

The Hep B vaccine (or HBV) protects against the virus that causes hepatitis B; the DTaP vaccine protects against the viruses that cause diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough); the PCV (pneumococcal vaccine) protects against the cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections; the Hib vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (which can also cause bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, or epiglottitis); and the rotavirus oral vaccine protects against a virus that causes the stomach fluB vaccine (or HBV) protects against the virus that causes hepatitis B; the DTaP vaccine protects against the viruses that cause diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough); the PCV (pneumococcal vaccine) protects against the cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections; the Hib vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (which can also cause bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, or epiglottitis); and the rotavirus oral vaccine protects against a virus that causes the stomach fluB; the DTaP vaccine protects against the viruses that cause diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough); the PCV (pneumococcal vaccine) protects against the cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections; the Hib vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (which can also cause bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, or epiglottitis); and the rotavirus oral vaccine protects against a virus that causes the stomach flub bacteria (which can also cause bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, or epiglottitis); and the rotavirus oral vaccine protects against a virus that causes the stomach flu.

This month you can expect baby to get immunizations, most likely a combination diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP,) haemophilus influenza type b vaccine (Hib,) polio, pneumococcal conjugate (PCV,) and the rotavirus vaccine.

Vaccination with Haemophilus influenzae Type b prevents most cases of epiglottitis, a potentially life - threatening form of laryngitis in toddlers.