Sentences with phrase «normally infect human»

The protein, they found, preferentially binds to human endothelial cells, allowing the retrovirus, which would not normally infect human cells, to enter them.

Although these viruses do not normally infect humans, over time they can adapt to humans and gain the ability to spread more easily from person to person, underscoring the importance of finding out which mutations could enhance the ability of these viruses to infect humans.

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In 2007, the virus — which normally infects birds and occasionally jumps from birds to humans — affected seven countries, prompting experts to warn that it could gain the ability to jump from person to person and trigger a pandemic.

H7N9 is a strain of flu virus that normally infects birds but has spread to at least 779 humans in a number of outbreaks related to poultry markets.

Normally, mice can not be infected with HIV, which only infects humans.

Anthrax can kill those who inhale it, but is not normally transmitted between humans, so an infected laboratory worker presumably could not have gone home and passed it on.

They often do not complete their life cycle normally when they infect humans, but they are a cause for concern.

These mites, known as Demodex canis, normally only infect dogs and not humans.