Sentences with word «poxvirus»

Serologic observations and serosurvey of poxvirus infections in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus).

They also found that the percentage of poxvirus infections was higher in more human - populated areas, but did not find a connection to oxidative stress.

Haagmans et al. made a MERS - CoV vaccine for use in camels, using poxvirus as a vehicle.

Protection of bats (Eptesicus fuscus) against rabies following topical or oronasal exposure to a recombinant raccoon poxvirus vaccine.

Vaccinia poxvirus joins a herpesvirus and a host of other pathogens on a growing list of engineered viruses entering late - stage human testing against cancer.

This invention encompasses recombinant poxvirus vectors encoding and expressing influenza antigens, epitopes and immunogens that can be used to protect dogs against influenza.

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.

The avian poxvirus, somewhat like the chicken pox virus in humans, causes lesions on the body — mostly on the feet, eyes, wings and ears, which in the late stages maybe become bloody and crusty, and lead to the loss of digits.

Creating poxviruses from scratch could help answer basic questions about their biology, for instance about the role of so - called hairpin structures at the end of the genome, Evans says.

However, the classic smallpox vaccine, a weakened poxvirus called vaccinia, can cause serious side effects and even death in people with compromised immune systems, eczema, or atopic dermatitis.

Two other vaccines, another one based on VSV and one using a modified poxvirus, are a few months behind in development.

The study clears up some of the mystery around poxvirus infection, says Grant McFadden, a virologist at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

A previously unknown poxvirus causes severe disease in European red squirrels from Germany.

Long read sequencing reveals poxvirus evolution through rapid homogenization of gene arrays

15th International Poxvirus and Irridovirus Conference, September 3 - 8, 2004, Keble College, Oxford, England.

Working in mice, Norbury's team used several methods to deplete different types of innate immune cells — collectively known as myeloid cells — at the three checkpoints before infecting the rodents with poxvirus.

The team devised a raccoon poxvirus that produces plague proteins once inside the prairie dog body.

Poxvirus infections in North American pinnipeds.

The AGIES panel's «perception was flavored by its public - health perspective on scientific arguments», says Grant McFadden, a poxvirus researcher at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a member of the scientific review panel.

They discovered the animal was spreading a poxvirus.

«If anyone wants to recreate another poxvirus, they now have the instructions to do that in one place,» says Andreas Nitsche of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin.

If anyone wants to recreate another poxvirus, they now have the instructions to do that in one place.

The mimivirus, on which we reported, joins the poxviruses as the...

The researchers looked at 50 frog skins under the electron microscope and found a poxvirus - like particle in 48 of them.

Researchers investigating Britain's shrinking population of common frogs (Rana temporaria) have found a poxvirus - like particle in the skins of dead frogs, which they believe could explain the recent rise in «unusual» frog deaths.

The results are «very encouraging,» says Mariano Esteban, a poxvirus researcher at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain, adding that they could prelude a safer generation of smallpox vaccines for humans to replace the old standbys from the smallpox eradication era.

It might not be the most elegant entrance, but poxviruses have engineered a way to sneak into cells through the garbage chute.

Carroll, of the Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, already has one of the cameras set up in one of his labs.

This is one way to do that,» says Darin Carroll, acting chief of the Poxvirus and Rabies Branch at CDC.

The discovery could explain how smallpox virus, the deadliest member of the poxvirus family, infects its hosts.

Poxvirus (in green) may enter its host cell (in red) by sporting a «garbage» tag that prompts the cell to swallow it.

Poxviruses have been seen both fused with and inside cells, but scientists have been unclear about exactly how they gain entry.

Targeting 4 - 1BB (CD137) to enhance CD8 T cell responses with poxviruses and viral antigens.

The organization's virus research program got started in the 1950s, and early work focused on herpesviruses, poxviruses and mosquito - borne viruses such as Yellow Fever.

Poxvirus infections in North American pinnipeds: Preliminary findings.

Poxvirus infections in North American pinnipeds, 23rd annual meeting of the American Society of Virology, July 10 - 14, Montreal, Quebec.