Sentences with phrase «largest known virus»

Bacteriologist Bernard La Scola first identified Mimivirus, the largest known virus, in 2003.

Didier Raoult and his colleagues at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille announced that they had sequenced the genome of the largest known virus, Mimivirus, which was discovered in 1992.

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

Not exact matches

Having the ability to run for 24hours thanks to its large tank of 1.5 gallons, the Honeywell Germ - free humidifier is known to kill up to 99 % of any bacteria, fungus, mold, and viruses lurking around your nursery or home.

In return, the prosecution said, for large sums of money provided by shady figures known as «John the Englishman» and «Adel the Egyptian,» the medical workers had systematically injected the man - made virus into the children's veins.

Probably the most surprising aspect of what Mikovits said that day, however, had to do with the fact that the new virus appeared to be in the murine leukemia family, which belonged to the larger retrovirus genus known as gammaretroviruses.

After eight weeks, they harvested all the viruses in the mice's feces, and identified the viral genes present by comparing them with a large database of known genes.

The way to measure this is to look for antibodies to the virus in a large number of people not known to have been infected.

Large study in Qatar also shows that infection with the virus is more widespread than previously known

They also noticed that the new virus, named Bacillus phage Tsamsa, is unusually large, with a giant head, a long tail and a large genome, placing it among the largest known bacteriophages.

Did you know, for example, that the vaccinia virus is a member of one of the largest and most complex of the vertebrate viruses?

Multiple types of rhinovirus C exist and they are part of a larger group of illness - causing viruses, including cold viruses rhinovirus A and B. «We knew it would be different from rhinovirus A and B: It didn't respond to drugs, it used a different receptor, it had different biological properties.

Whitehead and the other researchers said that in the case of dengue, the testing was warranted because they knew that the vaccine appeared to be effective at preventing dengue 1, 3 and 4 viruses through previous testing but needed to learn more about its impact on dengue 2 before proceeding to larger trials that could take three to 10 years and cost tens of millions of dollars.

Papillomaviridae form a large family of viruses that are known to infect a variety of vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles, birds and fish.

The 1,610 Ebola virus genomes analyzed by the researchers represented more than 5 percent of the known cases, the largest sample analyzed for a single human epidemic.

These animals tend not to be confined since no one knows they are infected, thus they can spread virus around a large area depending on where they leave their droppings.