Sentences with phrase «most deadly strain»

With the help of fellow researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, James and his colleagues were able to alter the DNA of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, which are major transmitters of the most deadly strain of malaria — Plasmodium falciparum.

Now, a research team headed by investigators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is the first to identify a mechanism by which influenza A, a family of pathogens that includes the most deadly strains of flu worldwide, hijacks cellular machinery to replicate.

Not exact matches

The strains of H5N1 that have managed to jump species and infect people are those that are most deadly to chickens, says David Swayne, a veterinarian at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

There are currently no vaccines or drugs approved for human use and no post-exposure treatment that has completely protected nonhuman primates against MARV - Angola, the most deadly Marburg viral strain, with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent.

Ten years after H5N1, more deadly bird flu has emerged from China, most recently a strain called H10N8.

The H5N2 strain is most prominent in the U.S. and the deadliest.

Trauma surgeon Grace Samuels is deployed to Afghanistan, helping soldiers overcome disease and combat injuries... But a deadly outbreak of anthrax is killing the people she cares most about Deadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by Julideadly outbreak of anthrax is killing the people she cares most about Deadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by JuliDeadly Strain (Biological Response Team) by Julie Rowe

If a strain of the chytrid fungus kills its hosts too quickly before the fungus can reproduce, it eliminates its most deadly genomes.