Sentences with phrase «of filoviruses»

Feldmann and his colleagues are reporting their results at the 7th International Symposium of Filoviruses in Washington, D.C., this week.

Comprehensive panel of real - time TaqMan polymerase chain reaction assays for detection and absolute quantification of filoviruses, arenaviruses, and New World hantaviruses

«The work on antibodies isolated from survivors of filovirus infections, including Marburg and Ebola, was started by James Crowe's laboratory at Vanderbilt University together with our laboratory about 3 years ago,» said virologist Alex Bukreyev, professor at UTMB and co-corresponding author.

Not exact matches

The study, published by EcoHealth Alliance's Dr. Kevin Olival and Dr. David Hayman from Massey University, reviewed all of the current literature on filoviruses — the class of viruses that include both Ebola and Marburg virus — and took a critical look at the ecological and virological methods needed to understand these viruses to protect human health.

One of these chemical structures, benzoquinoline, showed antiviral activity against Ebola virus and was also active against another deadly filovirus, Marburg virus.

Diagnostic reverse - transcription polymerase chain reaction kit for filoviruses based on the strain collections of all European biosafety level 4 laboratories

«A nice thing about the filovirus field is that it was populated by very straightforward, salt - of - the - earth people,» she says.

But equally intriguing was how few different families of RNA viruses turned up: just Bornaviruses and Filoviruses.

Of these, only half have ever been tested for filovirus, says Peterson.

The researchers engineered a DNAzyme with two loops: one to detect to detect the Marburg sequence, and another to detect a sequence common to all filoviruses, which includes Marburg and all strains of Ebola.

Fedson says that many scientists who study filoviruses like Ebola have yet to catch on to the idea of treating the immune response.

The WHO filovirus clinical working group, convened in response to the current outbreak, discussed the evidence on convalescents» serum at a meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, at the end of July, says Bausch, who is part of the group.

Because three kinds of bats from the region are believed to harbor the deadly filovirus.

In a study reported online this week in BMC Evolutionary Biology, the researchers conclude that filoviruses have existed for tens of millions of years.

Some reports based on the estimated mutation rate of this virus family have suggested that filoviruses are a mere 10,000 years old, but Derek Taylor, an evolutionary biologist at the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, has found a new way to gauge their age.

For the published broad agency announcement, see the April 29, 2016 solicitation, Advanced Development of Multivalent Vaccine Candidates for Filovirus and Lassa Fever.

Finding comparable safety and immunogenicity in U.S. and Ugandan populations provided proof of principle that a protective, multivalent filovirus vaccine is attainable.

Her work included the genome sequencing of the Ebola and Marburg filoviruses and Lassa Fever, as well as joint work to develop possible therapies.

The team is also working on prevention of related Ebolavirus members Sudan virus (SUDV) and Bundibugyo virus (BDBV), and the related filovirus Marburg virus.

Developed and optimized protocols for detection of hemorrhagic fever viruses including Filoviruses, Arenaviruses and Bunyaviruses (Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, Machupo, CCHF, Rift Valley Fever and others).