Sentences with phrase «viral diversity»

Money aside, there are more than a billion viruses in a pinch of soil, and scientists have only just begun charting the landscape of viral diversity.

The study «highlights the importance of looking at viral diversity in wildlife that live in close association with people.»

Stone said this is the part of the study she finds most interesting — the impact of vaccination as well as global trade travel on viral diversity.

Since 2013, mega-sized viruses falling into another eight potential virus families have been found, showcasing a long - unexplored viral diversity, researchers reported last year in Annual Review of Virology and in January in Frontiers in Microbiology.

GOING VIRAL The diversity of viruses carried by such animals as rhesus macaques (one shown) hints at the number of viruses capable of infecting humans that are yet to be discovered.

To study viral diversity in the ocean or within soil samples, environmental microbiologists must count how many viruses they find.

«The fact that all viruses don't share a single common gene calls for some clever approaches to investigating viral diversity.»

Karsenti said the oceans accommodate «an almost entirely unknown viral diversity.»

The team sought a balance between comprehensiveness — these five families represent just four percent of total viral diversity — and the cost of a meticulous analysis.

Polio infections tend to start in the gut and move to the brain; Vignuzzi wanted to study the role that viral diversity plays in the leap.

«Antibodies exposed to this high level of viral diversity in turn mutated to be able to tolerate variation, thus acquiring the ability to neutralize diverse global viruses.»

Based on the viral diversity in two species known to host emerging human diseases — Indian flying foxes and rhesus macaques — the team estimates there are about 1.67 million unknown viruses still to be discovered in the 25 virus families surveyed.

The discovery of the largest virus yet, still infectious, hints at the viral diversity trapped in permafrost

• RV217 (ECHO): HIV - 1 Prevalence, Incidence, Cohort Retention, and Host Genetics and Viral Diversity in High Risk Cohorts in East Africa • Infectious Disease Surveillance (HIV, TB and Malaria) and Cohort Development Among Urban and Rural Communities • Karolinska Institute vaccine study in Tanzania testing a prime - boost HIV vaccine regimen using unadjuvanted DNA vaccines followed by a Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA), which was developed by MHRP and NIAID.