Sentences with phrase «one's natural host»

Cats are not natural hosts for the heartworm like dogs are.

Cats are not natural hosts of heartworms, and are resistant.

Dogs are natural hosts for heartworms, which can live in the dog through their entire life cycle.

The duck genome consortium, consisted of scientists from China Agricultural University, BGI, University of Edinburgh and other institutes has completed the genome sequencing and analysis of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos), one principal natural host of influenza A viruses, which caused a new epidemic in China since this February.

They show that some 3 months after the outbreak took off and became a full - blown epidemic, the virus underwent a mutation that made it better suited for humans than for its presumed natural host, a fruit bat species.

«I don't see how it will be helpful to eliminate names like monkey pox that provide insights into natural hosts and potential sources of infection,» he says.

Bats are still suspected as the most likely natural host for the virus (New Scientist, 22 May, p 12).

The horses had picked up the disease while feeding beneath trees inhabited by fruit bats, which are Hendra's natural host species.

Cats contract bubonic plague in the same manner as humans, from yersina pestis bacteria carried by a flea whose natural hosts are rodents.

The good news is that because felines aren't natural hosts for these mites, the infestations, extreme itchiness and frantic scratching should last for a just a short time before the condition resolves on its own.

Sixteen species of mosquitoes, found east of the Mississippi River, have been proven to be natural hosts of (canine) heartworms.

We're looking for that natural host, the person who is always looking to make people happy and who doesn't find it to be a chore.»

The WHO's AGIES panel argued, however, that the regulatory system should be changed to allow licensing of smallpox drugs and vaccines on the basis of multiple animal surrogates, using various poxviruses in their natural hosts.

Infections of other poxviruses in their natural hosts provide more realistic, yet still imperfect, models.

While wild ducks and other aquatic birds are known to be natural hosts for low pathogenic flu viruses associated with milder symptoms, the results of this study indicate that is not the case with the highly pathogenic flu viruses that are associated with more severe illness.

Researchers Graham Laver and Robert Webster discover that waterfowl are the natural hosts of influenza viruses.

Swine flu applies to any type or subtype of influenza for which pigs are natural hosts.

The boundaries have been set over many years, many generations with the pathogen's natural host.

It had been evolving during that period in its natural hosts.

It simply went underground, continuing to evolve in its natural host, wild waterfowl.

In its natural hosts, influenza appears to be relatively static, but when it gets into a new host, many of those constraints are lifted.

The parasites» natural hosts are African thicket rats that use shrubs and trees as habitat.

These features of the immune response in healthy HIV - infected children show a striking resemblance to that observed in the more than 40 species of African monkeys which are the natural hosts of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)-- from which HIV itself is derived.

The method also allowed them to identify the natural hosts of some malaria species whose preferred host was previously unknown.

Recovered carcasses were infected by a variety of Ebola strains, suggesting that Ebola outbreaks in great apes result from multiple virus introductions from the natural host.

Tracking down the virus's natural host is crucial to halting outbreaks and preventing new ones, he says.

But this only works in the limited number of plants that are natural hosts to the bacterium.

The most likely way was by hitching a ride in a natural host, researchers said — in an infected bird or mosquito, or a human traveler.

The next step for researchers is to confirm that Rho can act like a prion in its natural host, Chien says.

As a natural host of influenza A viruses (including H5N1), the duck is known to often remain asymptomatic under influenza infection.

In rodents, toxo's natural hosts, the parasite gets into the brain and makes the animals less fearful, resulting in them taking more risks.

It is thought to have been spread to horses from fruit bats, which seem to be its natural host (see «Bats out of hell», New Scientist, 5 December 1998, p 40).

It is however likely that bats are the natural hosts for the virus, and that human infections are the result of contact with other animals such as camels acting as intermediate hosts.

The severity of TMAdV - related illness in affected titi monkeys suggests that this species of monkey may not be the natural host for the virus.

The unusually high death rate (83 %) makes titi monkeys unlikely to be natural hosts for TMAdV, and the genomic sequence of TMAdV revealed that it is very different from any other known adenovirus.

Moreover, wMel has been previously transferred from D. melanogaster to D. simulans [27] and protection in this new Drosophila - host association was similar to the protection provided by wAu in its natural host [25].

Is this abortive infection and pyroptotic cell death not operating in non-pathogenic lentiviral infections of natural hosts?

You are such a natural host always putting together the best looking tables.

Thus, a natural host for such an intervention would be a consortium of colleges and universities or a related organization with social goals.

Yet a luxury sedan of this caliber also makes a natural host for a V - 8, a fact that we acknowledged in our story when we wrote, «A dealer friend of ours tells us that some customers are skeptical of the A7 because it doesn't have a V - 8.

Cats are not a natural host for heartworm, which means that very few worms are able to develop to adults.

The cat is not a natural host for the heartworm which means the migrating larval heartworm is not likely to find its way to the heart when passed from a mosquito.

Found mainly in the Southeastern United States, this blood parasite is often commonly referred to as «Bobcat Fever» since bobcats are considered to be the natural hosts.

The natural host in the wild for the LCM virus is the rodent population and hamsters would most likely acquire their infection from this source.

Symptoms of Cytauxzoon felis While bobcats, the natural hosts, are typically asymptomatic, domestic cats are not so lucky.

People are not the definitive, natural host for roundworms which means that the roundworm lifecycle is not completed in humans.

Cats are not a natural host for heartworms but can become infected just like dogs.