Sentences with phrase «studying disease transmission»
However, studying disease transmission requires too many animals to be practical with ferrets.
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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)
Household income has been shown to interact with child growth in Brazil.21 A US study of diarrhoeal disease found no interaction between breast feeding and household income.8 Household income, like social class, may not be a good marker of transmission risk.
Not to worry though, because what chance is there that our scientific study results could even be related to foreign relations, other than, you know, research on global warming or acid rain or fish populations or avian - flu transmission or mad - cow - disease transmission, or ozone depletion or....
Matthew Thomas, a professor at The Pennsylvania State University who is studying the impact of climate change on the transmission of infectious diseases, says that his group had applied for funding in late 2008.
The role of bat parasites in maintaining chains of viral infection is little studied, and the new Wisconsin study serves up some intriguing insights into how viruses co-opt parasites to help do the dirty work of disease transmission.
«These restrictions also are in conflict with new HCV treatment guidelines from the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (2015), which explicitly state that active injection drug users should be prioritized for treatment in part because of the risk of transmission to susceptible injection partners.»
While the mouse study does not prove a direct connection between Zika infection and microcephaly, Rossi said, it does underscore the urgent need for effective animal models to further study the course of disease and its transmission.
The study's lead author, Patricia Lopes from the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich, says that previous research in wild animals has generally ignored how this change in behaviour may affect social contacts in a group and how, in turn, these changes can impact the transmission of a disease.
Ultimately, the study contributes to our understanding of the complexity inherent to disease transmission and highlights the importance of changes in behaviour of sick animals for predicting the outcome of outbreaks.
It's been well researched, by studies, by world organizations, by the Centre for Disease Control in Atlanta, other organizations that have all unanimously come to the conclusion that consumption of pork is not a risk factor for transmission of influenza virus from swine to human.
But a much - studied form of mitochondrial replacement (MR) could prevent the transmission of such diseases from mothers to children, researchers say.
«Ebola survivor study yields insights on complications of disease: Other findings may have implications for potential sexual transmission of Ebola.»
«This embryo gene correction method — if proven safe — can potentially be used to prevent transmission of genetic disease to future generations,» says study co-author Paula Amato.
The devastating impact of this disease is due in part to the seasonal dynamics of infection and transmission, according to a new study led by scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and published December 3 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
With HIV, for example, the risk of passing the disease between partners increases with higher viral load: For every 10-fold increase in viral concentration, one 2012 study suggests there is about a threefold increase in the risk of transmission per sexual act.
«If you can replace a natural population of dengue - transmitting mosquitoes with genetically modified ones that are resistant to virus, you can stop disease transmission,» says study leader George Dimopoulos, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and a member of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.
«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.
Nancy Cox, a flu researcher at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and another co-author of the Virology study, applauds Kawaoka and his colleagues for their «absolutely fantastic work,» and says their mutant «definitely moved the transmission bar to the right towards being fully transmissible.»
Transmission of mosquito - borne diseases, such as Zika, occur at lower temperatures than previously thought, a recently released study co-authored by two University of South Florida researchers shows.
«New effort uses implementation science to reduce mother - to - child HIV transmission: Studies investigate best practices to ease HIV disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa.»
A new study has found that nearly half of camels in parts of Kenya have been infected by the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and calls for further research into the role they might play in the transmission of this emerging disease to humans.
The researchers hope their study leads to better measures for modeling and predicting infectious disease transmission, but there are still open questions about the human - wildlife interface of disease.
Throughout their study, Salkeld and Antolin found that grasshopper mice and coyotes that scavenge plague - killed prairie dogs can speed transmission of the disease by spreading the disease - carrying fleas.
«If this technology is as safe and effective as IVF, as preliminary studies suggest, it could totally prevent transmission» of inherited mitochondrial diseases.
Prof Xiao - Nong Zhou from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention who was also involved in this study commented, «We are continuing to work on research into the sources of infection of H7N9 and the mode of transmission.
Additionally, culling may have unintended consequences: destabilizing host ecology can actually increase risk for disease transmission, as seen in studies of Marburg and rabies viruses.
«Currently, there is a lot of focus on the use of antibodies transferred passively or through a vaccine to prevent infection in infants, however this study cautions against that and suggests that broadly neutralizing antibodies may actually aid in enhancing transmission from mother to child,» added Sagar, an attending physician in infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center.
A series of exciting recent studies suggested that the process of protein misfolding and aggregation implicated in various PMDs can be transmitted by administration of preformed, misfolded protein aggregates, in a way reminiscent of the transmission of prion diseases by infectious prions (Prusiner, 2012; Soto, 2012; Jucker and Walker, 2013).
The devastating impact of this disease is due in part to the seasonal dynamics of infection and transmission, according to a new study led by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and published December 3 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
This is a subject of great importance, because, in most previous studies, the transmission of the pathologic misfolded aggregates did not induce the disease phenotype, raising a debate about whether seeding of protein misfolding is equivalent to disease transmission by infectious proteinaceous agents (Guest et al., 2011; Schmidt et al., 2012; Fernández - Borges et al., 2013; Piccardo et al., 2013; Walsh and Selkoe, 2016).
Pardis Sabeti (Harvard University)-- Systems biologist Dr. Sabeti is a physician scientist studying infectious disease evolution and the transmission of Ebola virus, Lassa fever, and other neglected, but deadly, tropical diseases.
For example, we are continuing to generate the base of evidence needed to empower science based control of the spread of rabies within vampire bats in Latin America, but also exploring fundamental questions about cross-species transmission and the role of host and pathogen genomics in studying disease ecology».
The JCVI GCID aims to study pathogens and the genetic determinants of their virulence, drug - resistance, immune evasion and interactions with the host, and host microbiome to advance research in pathogenicity, drug - resistance, disease transmission and vaccine development.
«A 2015 study we did uncovered gender relationships associated with disease transmission,» Mulema explained.
If validated in larger studies, the method could be used to diagnose prion diseases and prevent disease transmission through blood transfusions.
My team at BSRI, and collaborators in the REDS programs (the American Red Cross and globally), have responded to numerous blood safety threats with rigorous studies in multiple countries to verify and quantify rates of infected donations, and consequent risks of transmission to and disease outcomes in recipients.
During a post-doc at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, under the mentorship of Bruce Walker, he studied mother - to - child transmission of HIV at Boston Children's Hospital and showed that CTL escape mutants can be transmitted stably and significantly impact disease progression in the recipient (Goulder et al, Nature, 2001).
Working with the C. difficile team at the Institute, I infected mice with C. difficile, to allow us to recreate and study many aspects of the disease; including its persistence and transmission in humans.
In a new case study published Friday in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the authors discuss a case where a woman who had not traveled anywhere with ongoing Zika transmission came down with symptoms of the virus, including a fever and a rash, and her samples tested positive for the virus in a laboratory in Maryland.
While the likelihood of transmission from oral sex isn't known, according to the Centers for Disease Control, some studies suggest that this is possible.
The New York Times has been a strong advocate for lowfat diets, even for children, yet a recent NYT article noted that vitamin - A-rich foods like liver, egg yolk, cream and shellfish confer resistance to infectious diseases in children and prevent cancer in adults.13 A Washington Post article hailed vitamin A as «cheap and effective, with wonders still being (re) discovered,» noting that recent studies have found that vitamin - A supplements help prevent infant mortality in Third World countries, protect measles victims from severe complications and prevent mother - to - child transmission of HIV virus.14 The article lists butter, egg yolk and liver as important sources of vitamin A, but claims, unfortunately, that carotenes from vegetables are «equally important.»
Transmission of diseases A study published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that sharing a bed with a pet can result in the transmission of zoonotic agents that can cause seriousTransmission of diseases A study published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that sharing a bed with a pet can result in the transmission of zoonotic agents that can cause serioustransmission of zoonotic agents that can cause serious infections.
While extra cautions should be taken with the young, elderly, or immune - compromised, the studies shows there is a low risk of zoonotic disease transmission from sharing your home with a healthy pet.
From the wilds of Africa and the meadows of Yosemite to zoos in California and New York, Dr. Fleer has studied animal health and disease transmission for the last decade.
The findings are broadly in line with evidence from epidemiological studies that focus on the effect of climate conditions on both the transmission cycle and the incidence of disease.
Examination of these studies indicates that variability in temperature, precipitation, wind, and extreme weather events is linked to transmission of mosquito - borne diseases in some regions of China.