Sentences with phrase «then infect humans»

An infected cat can shed eggs in its stool which can then infect humans.

«This may contribute to antibiotic resistance, [and] scientists are more concerned about disease - causing bacteria that develops resistance in farm animals to then infect human beings.

But with no evidence of a large asymptomatic population so far, Kellam and his colleagues favor a second scenario: MERS evolved and diversified in animals and then infected humans on multiple occasions.

Not exact matches

The research team then infected specially bred mice carrying G protein - coupled receptors and those without the receptor with an influenza virus — which is known to trigger asthma attacks in humans.

The new virus can then spread to humans, rapidly infecting the population since few people are immune, with devastating results.

So what if it was the other way around — that the virus originated in Canadian pigs and infected a human who then traveled to Mexico?

They then tested their system in mice acutely infected with EcoHIV, the mouse equivalent of human HIV - 1.

Then, by placing surface proteins of each HCV virus onto these pseudoviruses, the researchers were able to efficiently infect human cells with the HCV strains in tissue culture.

Some have argued that a predecessor to the parasite must have infected the last common ancestor to humans and chimps, 6 million or 7 million years ago, and then co-evolved when Homo sapiens stepped onto the world stage in a process called cospeciation.

Ballou, who now heads vaccine R&D in the United States at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and his team bred mosquitoes in an insectary, and then fed them on human blood infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

The researchers then infected mosquitoes with a GAP designed for P. falciparum and put 150 to 200 of these insects on the arms of 10 human volunteers.

The team of researchers harvested hematopoietic stem cells from three macaques prior to SHIV infection of all six animals in the study, treated the animals with anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to reduce viral load and mimic the situation in human HIV - infected patients who are treated with ART, and then exposed the three monkeys from which they had collected hematopoietic stem cells to a high dose of radiation.

Occasionally a mosquito that has bitten an infected bird will then bite a human, horse or other mammal and transmit the virus to them.

Bartonella has been challenging to find and define, killing and infecting humans since 1885, a medical student in Peru, then World War II infecting solders through lice, killing more soldiers then gunshots, and again in the 1900's causing cat scratch fever in humans.

One of the most common ways in which this virus is transmitted to cats is actually through humans who have touched an infected cat and then unknowingly spread those germs to healthy cats on their hands or clothing.

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This virus has unique traits across the board, including the ability to infect bats that will then attack humans, making it far more fun to play.

Once at a hospital, it would be wise to use The Brutes to destroy the buildings and then The Infected to turn the surviving humans into zombies.

If you have things that keep humans from becoming infected and / or you isolate them from mosquitos if they are infected then you break the life - cycle chain.