Sentences with phrase «of infected humans»

Shortly afterwards, that outbreak hits home when — during a traffic jam with his family — he sees the first signs of the virus when he watches a group of infected humans attack people on the streets of Philadelphia.

Virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and University of Tokyo and his colleagues tested strains of H5N1 isolated from respiratory tissue in the noses, throats and lungs of infected humans.

One virus - particle doesn't change color, but as it procreates mutations in that process can make the resulting child - virus differ from the parent - virus, so that the child - virus is capable of infecting a human as well as the original host thereby opening the possibility for a new human disease.

GOING VIRAL The diversity of viruses carried by such animals as rhesus macaques (one shown) hints at the number of viruses capable of infecting humans that are yet to be discovered.

They can tell you, possibly, whether it has the capability of infecting humans, but that's not the whole story.

The findings offer much - needed strategies for monitoring the emergence of dangerous bird flu strains capable of infecting humans and for developing more effective vaccines.

Both kill upwards of a third of people infected and, like many viruses, emerged from animals — bats and camels in the case of MERS — after mutating into a form capable of infecting human cells.

MiRNA - seq and mRNA - seq will be carried out from the same RNA sample thereby integrating the mRNA and miRNA «sequenomes» of infected human cells most relevant to human toxoplasmosis.

To do this, a team led by Matthew Weitzman of the University of Pennsylvania crosslinked the host factors of infected human cells with the DNA of adenovirus, herpes simplex virus and vaccinia virus.

Osborne accused cats of infecting humans with bubonic plague, whooping cough, mumps, and foot - and - mouth disease, of which only bubonic plague even afflicts cats.

Not exact matches

It is introduced into humans through close contact with the bodily fluids of infected animals.

If even just a fraction of those can infect humans, those are thousands of reasons to further the research working toward developing effective broad - spectrum antivirals.

What an American doctor trained on the mainland might see as a case of the flu could actually be Chikungunya, a viral disease transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes.

Commerce is not the only entity that is infected; this virus has incapacitated each aspect of human reasoning.

In sharp contrast to feeling better, we are forced to confront the reality that sin has infected everyone and everything on this planet and that if anything is true of the human condition, it's that it is not something that should make us «feel better.»

No less however, does the anti-Calvinist infect their view of Scripture, because the whole concept of election is repugnant to the human mind.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

We visited the canecutters» living quarters, smelled the stench of human waste, watched the prostitutes cavort, stuck our heads into the tiny rooms crowded with bunk beds, and spoke with an old man whose foot had been infected for several years.

By analysing samples of the two different subtypes of HIV - 2 (A and B) taken from infected individuals and SIV samples taken from sooty mangabeys, Dr Vandamme concluded that subtype A had passed into humans around 1940 and subtype B in 1945 (plus or minus 16 years or so).

Yellow Fever is a mosquito - borne virus transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected mosquito.

Contact with live poultry infected with H7N9 flu appears to be the main means of transmission of this disease to humans, which has affected over 200 people since last spring, killing over 50.

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

Feeding straight animal milk was often associated with severe illness and death of the baby, either because the milk was not clean due to lack of refrigeration or infected with tuberculosis, or the ingredients were unsuitable for human infants, present in too large or too small quantities.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Livingston V and Stringer J: The Treatment of Staphylococcus Aureus Infected Sore Nipples: A Randomized Comparative Study, J Human Lact 1999, 15 (3): 241 - 246.

«This whole health and safety, human rights culture, has infected every part of our life.»

«Health Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picente said.

But when the researchers added higher concentrations of BX795 to cultured human corneal cells infected with HSV - 1, the infection was quickly cleared.

The team found that when LANA is cloned into a virus similar to Kaposi, but which infects mice instead of humans, it preserves its functionality.

Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

What's more, an ointment containing the peptide effectively treated wounds infected with methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and the increasingly common hospital infection bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii in mice and on laboratory samples of human skin.

By that time inadequate controls meant infected beef had been in the human food chain for years, and there were fears of a mass plague of agonising, invariably fatal vCJD.

The Zika virus is most commonly transmitted in humans as the result of a bite from an infected mosquito or from an infected human to another human.

A high percentage of the human population is infected with the herpes simplex virus and carries the virus in a latent state.

An Australian research team, however, recently reached a milestone when it became the first to screen and catalogue all of the genes activated by a BSL4 pathogen when it infects human cells.

4 Human papillomavirus More than 100 types of human papillomavirus (HPV) can infect humans, causing a variety of warts from the common wart to plantar and flat wHuman papillomavirus More than 100 types of human papillomavirus (HPV) can infect humans, causing a variety of warts from the common wart to plantar and flat whuman papillomavirus (HPV) can infect humans, causing a variety of warts from the common wart to plantar and flat warts.

An analysis of the HPV16 genome from 5,570 human cell and tissue samples revealed that the virus actually consists of thousands of unique genomes, such that infected women living in the same region often have different HPV16 sequences and variable risks to cancer.

Perhaps strangest of all are the self - replicating, viruslike pieces of DNA that infected ancient humans and still make up about 8 percent of our genome.

Somewhere along the way, certain molecular changes, including a deletion of 29 base pairs from the original virus, allowed SARS to infect and replicate in human cells.

Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).

«Almost every human being is infected with one or more of these viruses, but most people never develop symptoms, much less breast cancer,» Friedenson said.

After more than 20 years of genetic experimentation, researchers have discovered how to breed malaria - resistant mosquitoes that are unable to infect humans with their bites.

In March he published an analysis of two swine branches of the H1N1 family tree — one of them a Eurasian strain that contributed segments of the novel H1N1 now infecting humans.

To develop the test, the researchers targeted unique stretches of DNA or RNA from every known group of viruses that infects humans and animals.

Plague infects a handful of humans and domesticated animals each year as well, and the team is looking into using the vaccine in areas where humans spend time, like national parks.

An unknown component of breast milk appears to kill HIV particles and virus - infected cells, as well as blocking HIV transmission in mice with a human immune system.

These animals are common hosts for the influenza virus, which comes in a wide range of strengths and types — some of which can infect humans.

For viruses, traits included how many different mosquito species they infect, whether they have ever infected humans and the severity of the diseases they cause.

It didn't take long for one infected plant to infect thousands — never through the air, never through insects, but simply by human propagation,» says Bill Zettler, a plant pathologist at University of Florida.

Wolbachia bacteria, which do not infect humans, cause the eggs of female mosquitoes that mate with infected males to fail to hatch.