Sentences with phrase «on filoviruses»
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.
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The largest outbreak on record for the filovirus family was caused by Ebola virus in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, resulting in more than 28,000 infections and more than 11,000 deaths.
Diagnostic reverse - transcription polymerase chain reaction kit for filoviruses based on the strain collections of all European biosafety level 4 laboratories
«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.
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.
They arrived at that estimate by showing that the Norway rat and the house mouse, which diverged from each other somewhere between 12 million and 24 million years ago, have the same filovirus gene pieces integrated at the same places on the same chromosomes.
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.
The team is also working on prevention of related Ebolavirus members Sudan virus (SUDV) and Bundibugyo virus (BDBV), and the related filovirus Marburg virus.