Sentences with phrase «of human pathogens»

The team found that the Lone Star virus, which is carried by the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum, is related to a group of human pathogens including Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus, which infected hundreds of farmers in China between 2008 and 2010; Bhanja virus, initially found in India; Palma virus, found in Portugal; and Heartland virus, an illness recently reported among farmers in Missouri.

Their research, published in January, shows that bacteriophages can rapidly accelerate the evolution of human pathogens by transferring genes from one bacterial species to another.

«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Nathan Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.

Hahn's lab studies ape relatives of human pathogens such as HIV and malaria to gain a greater insight into the microbes that cause these diseases in humans.

Predation of human pathogens by the predatory bacteria Micavibrio aeruginosavorus and Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.

«We are working, in some way, in applied evolutionary biology, from genomics of human pathogens, molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, forensic DNA, or conservation genetics.

He and an international team of researchers focused on the last common ancestor of the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans and its nearest sibling species, a non-pathogen called Cryptococcus amylolentus.

Much of his work investigates assembly of the cytoskeleton and replication of the human pathogen Toxoplasma gondii, which infects an estimated one - quarter of the world population.

Their work, published in Science Translational Medicine, provides proof of concept for producing antibodies against a broad range of human pathogens.

Research focus: My research focuses on the interaction of the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae with its host during pulmonary infection.

2002 — 2005 Coordinator collaborative research project «Resistance of human pathogens» (Landesstiftung Baden - Württemberg)

VectorBase is a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) providing genomic, phenotypic and population - centric data to the scientific community for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens.

EGCG present in matcha attaches itself to the lipid membrane and inhibits the growth of human pathogens such as influenza A virus, hepatitis B and C virus, and Candida albicans yeast.

Approximately 60 percent of all human pathogens are zoonotic, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.

Areas of focus include three major groups of human pathogens (Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and the dimorphic fungi), obligate pathogens of diverse hosts (Microsporidia and Pneumocystis), and the wheat rust fungi (Puccinia sp) that cause current agricultural epidemics.

In fact, the CDC estimates 60 % of human pathogens are transmitted by animals.