Sentences with phrase «of mammalian hosts»

A common intestinal parasite is Giardia lamblia (also known as Giardia intestinalis), a protozoan that uses a «sucker» to adhere to the intestines of mammalian hosts, including humans.

OspC expression is required for B. burgdorferi infection of mammalian hosts.

The studies also allowed the team to pinpoint patterns of evolutionary change in the genes of these viruses, reflecting their adaptation to different kinds of mammalian hosts.

B. burgdorferi possesses one protein that is essential for establishing a long - term infection of a mammalian host: VlsE.

Anaplasma phagocytophilum Outer Membrane Protein A Interacts with Sialylated Glycoproteins To Promote Infection of Mammalian Host Cells

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In addition, changes in the microbial ecology of the mammalian digestive tract can harm the health of the host.

Following introduction into mammalian hosts (including humans) by the bite of a sand fly, Leishmania parasites undergo extensive changes to adapt to survival and multiplication inside the new host cells and tissues.

We used a mathematical model of within - host virus evolution to study factors that could increase and decrease the probability of the remaining substitutions evolving after the virus has infected a mammalian host.

The Nature study, titled «Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microbes in mammalian hosts,» was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institute of Health Research, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Packard Fellowship, the Pew Scholarship, the Heritage Medical Research Institute, the National Science Foundation, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

The majority of the positive samples (72 percent) were 79 - 100 percent similar to astroviruses associated with human infections; 23.5 percent of the samples were similar to mammalian astroviruses isolated from diverse animal hosts including dogs, pigs and sheep.

Genome sequence alterations detected upon passage of Burkholderia mallei ATCC 23344 in culture and in mammalian hosts.

The discovery eventually led to the uncovering by others of two additional signaling pathways in mammalian cells that, together with Ire1, help maintain equilibrium in the face of stress, averting a host of diseases.

Expression profiling of fungi and the mammalian host during in vivo infections and ex vivo infections of culture immune system cells

Currently, I study the prevalence, genetic diversity and evolutionary history of Demodex lineages, in relation to both human populations, as well as other mammalian hosts.

We thus aimed to grow any persistent B. burgdorferi present in the heart tissue of our infected macaques within an isolated system exposed to a mammalian host environment.

In this study, we investigated the role of OspC in B. burgdorferi in both the tick vector and the mammalian host.

The transient pattern of ospC expression, coupled with the phenotype of the mutant, suggests that OspC does not provide a physiologic function required for growth in the mammalian host, but has a critical function early in host infection, preceding the acquired immune response.

The Synthetic Biology Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is hosting its Third International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop in May, which will feature keynote talks by Profs. Shelley Berger and Irving Weissman.

Genome analysis of three Pneumocystis species reveals adaptation mechanisms to life exclusively in mammalian hosts.

This rapid synthesis of OspC by spirochetes during tick feeding may play an essential role in the capacity of these bacteria to successfully infect mammalian hosts, including humans, when transmitted by ticks.

As dogs have been infected with both mammalian and avian influenza viruses, they have the potential to act like pigs, as «mixing vessel» hosts for the generation of new strains.