"To replicate the virus" means to make copies or produce more of the virus.
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The mutations effectively lower the threshold for what it takes for a mosquito to become infected with chikungunya,
replicate the virus in its body and pass it on to humans with its bite.
An additional study was conducted in which the AVI - 7288 drug levels in Marburg virus - infected monkeys were carefully monitored to determine whether the presence of
replicating virus altered systemic drug levels compared to healthy animals.
Having a pet bird at home increased household members» risk of becoming infected, perhaps because the
birds replicated the virus, too.
Following infection, Langerhans cells not only serve as reservoirs
for replicating virus, but also transport the virus to nearby lymph nodes where HIV spreads to other immune cells.
Hookipa's TheraT ® platform is based on an
attenuated replicating virus and is capable of eliciting the most potent T cell responses — a crucial step in treating patients with aggressive cancers.
Those infected with poorly
replicating viruses progressed to low CD4 T cell counts more than two years after those infected with highly replicating viruses.
The task of the replicase is to
replicate the virus» genetic material, whereas the host cell's genetic material is not to be recognised and copied.
Now Gamarnik has discovered that the particular viral enzyme required to
replicate the virus is only able to recognise a ring - shaped structure.
When the dengue strand forms a circle, proteins can latch on to the «promoter» region at the joined ends of the strand and, crucially, go on from there to
replicate the virus, Gamarnik explains.
Replicating virus could be isolated from stimulated PBMC with sequences almost, but not quite identical to the viruses isolated from prostate cancer patients.
«After primary infection there is a brief and often non-detectable viremic stage where
the replicating virus can be found all over the body.
He has argued that «Language is a self -
replicating virus that can only be destroyed by a stronger, more resilient virus.
What's worse is that this exploit can be deployed on public wifi networks or embedded in webpages, so experts are concerned about the possibility of a self -
replicating virus or worm.