Sentences with phrase «screening against the virus»
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This work began as part of a biodefense grant from the National Institutes of Health, screening a library of 30,000 compounds for activity against the envelope of Nipah virus, an emerging infection first identified in 1999 in Malaysia.
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Yet he stresses that these mouse models give insights into pathogenesis and will allow for high - throughput screening of drugs and vaccines against the virus.
12 May WHO and CDC officials suggest that European and Asian countries may have made headway against the virus with aggressive screening of travelers and prompt treatment of infected people and their contacts with antivirals.
Cross and his team are screening drug compounds against the virus but have yet to identify serious candidates.
Despite the widespread use of screening programs and the recent advent of vaccines against human papilloma virus, cervical cancer continues to be a significant public health problem.
«If the platform is robust, and ours is, you can imagine using it to screen thousands and thousands of compounds against different viruses for the discovery of new antivirals,» Wolkowicz said.
It's even possible to screen drugs against multiple viruses at the same time.