Sentences with phrase «known viruses infect»

Some of the largest known viruses infect simple organisms such as amoebas and simple marine algae.

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It is primarily transmitted by tropical mosquitoes — the same kind known for spreading dengue — that pick up the virus from infected people, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But about 15 % of the 1.2 million Americans infected with HIV in 2015 didn't know they carried the virus, illustrating just how much work still remains to be done on the public health front.

The Elk Cloner virus, one of the first viruses known to spread in the wild, infected the boot sector of Apple II floppies.

The SQL Slammer was a small, rapidly spreading virus that infected some of the most - used web servers and caused numerous problems across the U.S.. Also known as Sapphire, the virus caused outages in 911 service in Seattle, forced Continental Airlines to cancel flights because of electronic issues and crashed ATM services for Bank of America.

The severity of the flu differs from person to person, so it's possible to be infected with the virus and not know it.

We do not know the risk to the infant if a woman is infected with Zika virus while she is pregnant.

A: We do not know the risk to an infant if a woman is infected with Zika virus while she is pregnant.

A: We do not know the risk to the baby if a woman is infected with Zika virus while she is pregnant.

Remember, by the time you and your pediatrician know for sure your little one has been infected by the roseola virus, he'll already have recovered.

Since I was carrying who - knows - what virus, wasn't I going to infect her?

It's as if good politicians are no more in this nation, or probably when they get into power of authority, they become infected and affected by the» CHOP AND CLEAN MOUTH VIRUS»....

At that time scientists knew that antibodies from people infected by the 1968 pandemic virus also reacted with an influenza strain isolated in 1963 from flu - ridden ducks.

While there are no known cases to date of the general public being infected with the Zika virus through the environment, there has been at least one documented case of laboratory acquired Zika virus infection.

Scientists already know how these RNA viruses infect cells.

However, viral sequences found in genomes are often fossils of long - ago infections that can no longer reproduce independent virus particles that can then infect additional bacteria.

Bacteriophages, also known as «phages,» are viruses that infect and kill bacteria.

CDC, racing to sequence the virus from those infected, said it's seeing «slight changes» in its genetic makeup, but, said Besser, agency scientists don't know what that means.

To develop the test, the researchers targeted unique stretches of DNA or RNA from every known group of viruses that infects humans and animals.

Its ending was known — 66 children entered a hospital on different dates and became infected with two kinds of viruses — but how did the story begin?

Bats are hosts to the deadliest viruses we know, but far from infecting humans they may actually hold secrets to improving our health and longevity

The $ 1.2 billion project aims to identify roughly 70 percent of these potential threats within the next 10 years, focusing on animals in places known to be hot spots for the emergence of human - infecting viruses.

The research team then infected specially bred mice carrying G protein - coupled receptors and those without the receptor with an influenza virus — which is known to trigger asthma attacks in humans.

«This is going to be one of those transformative papers,» says microbiologist Martha Clokie, who studies viruses that infect bacteria (known as bacteriophages, or phages) at the University of Leicester, UK.

But the 263 known viruses that circulate in humans represent less than 0.1 percent of the viruses suspected to be lurking out there that could infect people, researchers report in the Feb. 23 Science.

We know from HIV research that around one percent of people infected with HIV form antibodies that combat different virus strains.

It is known that Zika can cause microcephaly, a severe birth defect in babies born to women infected with the virus, and Guillain - Barré syndrome, a neurological condition that can lead to muscle weakness and, in severe cases, paralysis.

Approximately 500 million people around the world are infected with the genital herpes virus known as herpes simplex virus 2 (HSV2).

It's very unlikely that she was infected by a bite by a mosquito that first bit her husband; the three tropical Aedes mosquito species known to transmit Zika don't live in northern Colorado, and moreover, the virus has to complete a 2 - week life cycle within the insect before it can infect the next human; Foy's wife fell ill just 9 days after his return.

The researchers found 36 viruses, including six new viruses, none of which are known to infect humans.

«When mosquitoes are infected with these viruses, there's a signal that lets the mosquito's cells know that they are infected, resulting in targeting of the virus by the mosquito's immune response.

«Something similar occurs in our bodies when we're infected with these viruses; there are signals our cells detect that let our immune system know all is not well,» he said.

Research focused on the utilisation of viruses that infect and kill bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages, in preventing infectious diseases has gained new traction after bacterial resistance to antibiotics has become a global problem.

High used AAV to deliver the gene because the virus is considered benign; although it infects human cells, it is not known to cause any symptomatic infection.

The virus, which replicates by infecting a species of common gut bacteria, is six times more abundant than all other known gut viruses combined.

The researchers tested blood samples taken from four people who had been infected with Zika virus and compared it to blood from five people known not to have the virus.

Over 20,000 two - dimensional cryo - EM images of bacteriophage P22 (also known as the P22 virus that infects the common bacterium Salmonella) from Baylor College of Medicine were used to make the model.

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.

Reports that he passed it onto his son have prompted comparisons between the new virus and SARS, the disease that killed 775 of the 8000 known people it infected worldwide in 2003.

Such homologies have been found by computer searches in which decapeptides in two human myelin proteins were compared with proteins of viruses known to infect humans.

Knowing more about how viruses get inside cells, says Pelkmans, could lead to the development of drugs that prevent the virus from infecting the cell rather than simply trying to slow down replication after the infection takes hold.

The team is the first to demonstrate that HIV - 1 replication can be completely shut down and the virus eliminated from infected cells in animals with a powerful gene editing technology known as CRISPR / Cas9.

Ninety percent of those who have heard of Zika know that it can be spread through the bite of a mosquito carrying the virus; however, only 57 percent are aware that Zika can be spread through sexual intercourse with an infected person.

It has been known since 1960 that early doses of polio vaccine were widely contaminated with simian virus 40, or SV40, which infects macaque monkeys.

And globally a total of 549 health care workers are known to have been infected with the virus, and 311 have died.

«In people chronically infected with hepatitis B or C, human papillomaviruses or other viruses known to cause cancer, radioimmunotherapy could potentially eliminate virus - infected cells before they're able to transform into cancer cells.»

The Zika virus, a little - known pathogen that until 2007 hadn't been seen outside of Africa and Asia, spread earlier this year to South America and has infected more than 84,000 people in Brazil.

The compound 3 - deazauridine stopped HIV by creating so many mutations in the virus that the virus was no longer able to spread throughout the body by infecting other cells.

To do this, the team borrowed know - how perfected by bacteriophages — viruses that can infect bacteria by inserting their viral genome into the bacterial genome.

«The new regimens will be game changers in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C,» said senior author Vincent Lo Re III, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Medicine and Epidemiology in the division of Infectious Diseases and department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Penn. «Given the high prevalence of this infection, particularly in baby boomers who didn't know they were infected, having new, highly - effective treatment options to eradicate the virus will be a tremendous benefit to patients that will ultimately help us to reduce liver - related complications and re-infection rates.»