Sentences with phrase «vaccines against viruses such»

Scientists could be one step closer to developing long - awaited vaccines against viruses such as Zika, West Nile or HIV, thanks to research at Penn State College of Medicine.

Not exact matches

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.

«For the current H3N2, we don't have such studies, so I can't tell you right now the degree the current seasonal vaccine will protect against the H3N2 virus,» Fukuda says.

This means that when an unexpected flu strain appears, such as the 2009 pandemic - causing H1N1 virus, there is no way to rapidly produce a vaccine against it.

The reliably high percentage of those who develop viremia following exposure to this challenge virus is another advantage — when most or all volunteers develop viremia or other signs of infection, clinical trials can enroll relatively small numbers of people but still achieve answers to such questions as whether a candidate vaccine protects against infection, she noted.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

In these phase 2 and phase 3 trials, thousands of people who are at risk of contracting the virus, such as health workers, will receive the vaccine to determine whether it can protect against infection.

Such cross-protection is the case with cowpox and smallpox, and a vaccine currently in use for Japanese encephalitis protects some animals against the closely related West Nile virus.

The study relates to a particular type of vaccine (killed) against a particular virus, influenza, though the findings might hold true for other killed vaccines and for those vaccines consisting only of proteins produced by GM in bacteria, yeast or insect cells, against diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV) and human papilloma virus (HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer).

The study also affirms that a vaccine that evokes the immune system to produce protective antibodies, such as ZIKV - 117, could be effective against the virus.

Such vaccines are effective against Bordetella, feline leukemia virus, Chylamydophila felis, and feline immunodeficiency virus.

Vaccinations can be put into two categories: core vaccines, used to protect horses against diseases that every horse is at risk of contracting (such as West Nile virus, Eastern and Western encephalitis, tetanus and rabies), and risk - based vaccines.

Vaccines against other respiratory causing pathogens, such as Bordetella, parainfluenza, and adenovirus, may help to prevent a secondary infection in a dog already compromised by the influenza virus.

In human medicine, our growing knowledge about the role of viruses as a cause of certain cancers has led to the development of vaccines as preventives, such as vaccines against human papillomaviruses, the main cause of cervical cancer in women.

It has been said that a child in the home of a dog vaccinated with live distemper virus vaccine will become exposed to the virus and immunized against the measles (we do not recommend such experiments at home).

One such combination vaccine is a 7 - in - 1 or 7 - way vaccine, which protects against canine distemper, adenovirus, hepatitis, parainfluenza, parvovirus, leptospirosis and corona virus.

Regular canine vaccines, such as a 5 in 1, or a 7 in 1, offer some protection against kennel cough, as many strains of this infection, are caused by the parainfluenza virus.