Sentences with phrase «study than the virus»

«Yet the behavior is easier to study than the virus itself,» said Hueffer.

Not exact matches

A 2013 study from Stanford University found that women's antibodies tend to respond more rapidly to an injection of the flu virus than men's antibodies.

They spread up to 190 times more of a noninfectious test virus used in the study than the other methods.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

Breast feeding for less than one month increased the incidence of respiratory syncytial virus infections, 10 as did male gender, room sharing, and mothers with lower level of education, but non-wheezing lower respiratory infections were not related to breast feeding patterns at any time in the first year in the same study.26

Rather than pack up and go home, he went for the last option available — a master's degree in cancer research — and picked a cancer lab that also studied viruses, at the University's Institute of Hematology.

Certain birth defects were 20 times more prevalent in babies born to Zika virus — infected mothers in the U.S. in 2016 than they were before the virus cropped up in the United States, a CDC study suggests.

H5N1 is getting far more attention than SARS from scientists who study the ecology of viruses because, of the 44 people who are known to have gotten H5N1 in 2004, 32 died.

In a study published in the May 29, 2014, edition of Molecular Ecology Resources, Duke researchers Peter Larsen, Ryan Campbell and Anne Yoder used high - throughput sequencing on sifaka blood samples to generate sequence data for more than 150,000 different sifaka antibodies — protective molecules that latch on to bacteria, viruses and other foreign invaders in the body and fight them off before they cause infection.

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Traces of Zika virus typically linger in semen no longer than three months after symptoms show up, a new study on the virus» staying power in bodily fluids reveals.

The study found that viruses varied more widely between the twins than the bacterial communities did.

Researchers for the past decade have focused on the T cell approach, based on studies showing that monkeys receiving such vaccines against simian immunodeficiency virus, related to HIV, lived longer or had lower viral levels than usual.

The study, the culmination of more than 10 years of research and published online in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology in June, discovered virus - like elements within the human genome linked to the development of two autoimmune diseases: lupus and Sjogren's syndrome.

HIV is widespread in these populations and because strains of the virus are more divergent there than in other regions studied, it is reasonable to believe it has been there longer than elsewhere.

Studies have shown that flu vaccines work better at protecting against influenza B or influenza A H1N1 viruses than influenza A H3N2.

During the following season (2013 - 2014), when H1N1 viruses dominated and the standard - dose vaccine had better effectiveness than the previous season, the high - dose vaccine was not significantly better at preventing deaths among the Medicare patients studied.

«Throughout our decade - long study with more than 1,600 heterosexual couples, we did not observe HIV transmission when the HIV - infected partner's virus was stably suppressed by antiretroviral therapy,» said Myron Cohen, M.D., the study's principal investigator.

Ding has been studying antiviral RNAi for more than two decades and also was the first to describe the action of the influenza virus protein NS1 in blocking RNAi in fruit flies.

The new study suggests that some bacteria involved in BV are more important than others in raising HIV risk, and that treating those bacteria with antibiotics might be a more effective way to protect these women from the virus.

Among other findings, that study found that the varroa mite is far more abundant than previous estimates indicate and is closely linked to several damaging viruses.

Findings from a recent study, conducted by the University of Florida's Tourism Crisis Management Initiative, or TCMI, shows more than 70 percent of potential visitors are concerned with the mosquito - borne Zika virus in Florida.

He notes, however, that the freezing and processing required to study the blood samples often causes degradation that makes RNA easier to find than the virus.

The common cold virus can reproduce itself more efficiently in the cooler temperatures found inside the nose than at core body temperature, according to a new Yale - led study.

The study also strongly suggested that the varying temperatures influenced the immune response rather than the virus itself.

The study showed that the rate of brain infection, or encephalitis, from the chikungunya virus is higher than the rate seen in the United States due to West Nile virus and similar infections between 1999 and 2007.

HIV's close cousin, the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), has been around for tens of thousands of years — much longer than the few hundred years that some studies had suggested.

The find highlights how ancient viruses can more easily be identified by their proteins than their more commonly studied nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA.

A new study sheds light on the acquisition and features of Zika virus in Canadian travellers, indicating it was as commonly confirmed as dengue in people returning from the Americas and the Caribbean but more severe than expected, according to a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

In the new study, published Oct. 12, 2015, in Scientific Reports, favipiravir not only effectively treated guinea pigs infected with Lassa virus, it also worked better than ribavirin.

More than one - half of the HIV - infected young people in the United States have never received a test for the virus, according to a study released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In a study of dozens of MERS patients in intensive care in Saudi Arabia, for example, some had a much higher virus load in their exhaled breath than others, he says.

«Despite having good treatments available, current reports suggest that fewer than half of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus, leading to more transmission of disease,» says lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

And its evolution has arguably been studied more closely in real time than that of any influenza virus in history.

Unfortunately, in more than 25 percent of cases studied, such prescriptions are useless because the infection stems from a virus, which can not be treated with antibiotics.

Although Lassa fever was first described in modern - day Nigeria in 1969, the current study also suggests that these four LASV strains originated from a common ancestral virus more than 1,000 years ago and spread across West Africa within the last several hundred years.

Speaking on the importance of the study, Professor Bill Keevil, co-author and Chair in Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton, said: «Respiratory viruses are responsible for more deaths, globally, than any other infectious agent.

In ongoing studies, the researchers spray influenza virus into the noses of volunteers via a mist, created by an atomizer that only produces particles larger than 10 microns.

«We observed that the virus in all vaccinated animals initially replicated less than in the control group,» Ulrike Sauermann, first author of the study, summarized the results.

In a study to be published in the July issue of the journal Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, Dr. Rourke noted that aging for people with HIV may be more challenging than for the general population because of HIV - related stigma, loss of friends and social networks, and the detrimental health effects of the virus and medications taken to combat the virus.

Large study in Qatar also shows that infection with the virus is more widespread than previously known

And her previous studies of enteroviruses in Southeast Asia showed that viruses that infect humans were more common in wild monkeys than monkey - specific viral species.

As part of the study, more than 250 UK and Ireland healthcare and other workers were tested for Ebola virus antibodies after returning from West Africa — no evidence of missed infections was found.

He notes that the new study is especially relevant because it worked in mammalian cells, which ultimately are a better way to grow the virus than eggs: It's a faster production system and avoids mutations that occur when the virus adapts to chicken eggs, which can compromise vaccine effectiveness.

In the study, mice given a lethal dose of dengue virus less than a week after receiving the protective DMAb were completely protected from lethal disease — significantly more rapid than vaccine - driven protection, which can take weeks to months to reach peak efficacy levels.

«More than forty years ago, scientists discovered enzymes that cut DNA from studying the viruses that infect bacteria, inspiring a new class of tools that created a revolution in biomedicine,» says Marraffini.

«The viral loads in the saliva in general are low, but there are also anti-microbial components in saliva making that low level of virus even less infectious than it might be in another medium,» says Christina Newman, co-first author of the study with Dudley and also a scientist with the UW - Madison Zika Experimental Science Team.

The distribution of a virus studied among ancient mammals suggests the viruses spread to every continent except Antarctica and Australia, and that they jumped from one species to another more than 20 times.

For a study published in 2013, they collected more than 50,000 ticks at the Missouri farms and elsewhere in the region; they found that the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum, was the only species carrying the virus and thus most likely the culprit.

Because much of the research focus on HCV is now directed at developing antiviral therapies, it's likely that these new findings may have a greater impact on treatments for chronic hepatitis B (HBV), rather than the virus studied in this experiment, Dr. Walker says.