Sentences with phrase «known human pathogens»
While this mosquito species is primarily know as a nuisance biter, various laboratory studies have shown A. notoscriptus to be a competent vector of Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus, which are well - known human pathogens.
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«Norovirus is one of the deadliest human pathogens that we know the least about,» said first author Craig B. Wilen, MD, PhD, an instructor in pathology and immunology.
But now we need to know the proclivity of a virus or other pathogen to get into the human population.
HIV is a newcomer among human pathogens, having caused the first known cases of aids within the past few decades.
The virus, which looks like a piece of yarn with a slight bend, is the only Ebola pathogen not known to cause disease in humans.
Nobody knows if adding the interleukin - 4 gene would have the same effect in a different pathogen, but «the question instantly became what would happen if somebody tried this with smallpox or other human viruses,» says Seamark.
One of these, Helicobacter pylori, is a pathogen that can cause stomach ulcers in humans and is the strongest known risk factor for gastric cancer.
EBOV is one of the most lethal human pathogens known and causes severe hemorrhagic fever in humans.
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.
Cecelia Wall, a graduate student in Drs. Heitman and Maria Cardenas» labs, had been looking for mutations that would make the human fungal pathogen M. circinelloides resistant to the antifungal drug FK506 (also known as tacrolimus).
«However, these two species are known to transmit pathogens that affect human and animal health.»
The team looked at historical records of nearly 150 pathogens known to jump from wildlife to humans.
We have known about this human and animal pathogen, TB, since ancient times, and it has always been considered something that is transmitted either through oral or aerosol exposure,» said lead study author Kathleen Alexander, DVM, PhD, professor, Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.
The new study, led by Walter Mothes, a Yale microbial pathogens expert, involved creating one culture that mixed healthy rat cells with cells infected by the murine leukemia virus, a cancerous pathogen in rats and monkeys that is not known to affect humans.
Blanch considers that knowing the source of the pollution is also important from a health - risk perspective, «given that human pathogens present in water are significantly more contagious than those of animal origin,» concludes the scientist.
One - hundred - ten of the genes had clear similarities in sequence to known antibiotic - resistance genes, the team discovered, and 18 of those were 100 % identical to genes found in human pathogens.
Humans emit upwards of 106 biological particles per hour, and have long been known to transmit pathogens to other individuals and to indoor surfaces.
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.
In addition we found the first human genes essential for host - pathogen interactions where few details are known, as is the case for cytolethal distending toxin secreted by certain strains of E. coli.
Larvae and nymphs usually feed off of rodents, but adult Rocky Mountain Wood Ticks have been known to pass pathogens to humans.
All of these are known to be canine (and human) pathogens.