Sentences with phrase «same flavivirus»
Zika's surface protein — the primary target of antibodies — looks extremely similar to those on dengue and West Nile virus, members of the same flavivirus family.
http://www.sciencemag.org/ Not exact matches
Unfortunately, many other viruses from the same family, known as flaviviruses, have similar versions of NS1 and can produce a false positive.
«It's the same technology WRAIR has used to successfully develop other flavivirus vaccines.»
«This is why, for our test, we produced special antigens — using certain point mutations, we altered the area of the antigens that is the same for all flaviviruses, effectively shutting it off.
The catch is that, although the antigens bind with the antibodies according to the lock and key principle, they almost always do so at the same site as all other flaviviruses.
Zika and dengue are closely related and come from the same family of viruses, known as flaviviruses.