Sentences with phrase «virus infection in human»

Researchers from the University of Helsinki have shown that three anti-influenza compounds effectively inhibit Zika virus infection in human cells.

«Damaging consequences of Zika virus infection in human minibrains: Zika virus reduces growth, induces cell death, malformations in human neurospheres, brain organoids.»

These structures can be mutated to better understand how they influence the Zika virus infection in humans and can also potentially lead to the development of a safe vaccine that has reduced side effects.»

Dr Peter Barlow says study represents a promising step forward in the rapid development of a safe and robust vaccine against Zika virus infection in humans.

Dating the origin and dispersal of hepatitis B virus infection in humans and primates.

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These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarilin the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarilIn countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarilin infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

Affecting sexually active women, in 99.7 % of all cases cervical cancer results from a history of infection by a group of viruses called human papillomavirus - or HPV.

Hepatitis is a highly prevalent infection, the World Hepatitis Alliance estimates that as many as one person in 12 worldwide may be infected with the blood - borne strains Hepatitis B or C, which are passed on in similar ways to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

These findings allowed researchers to create a chimera virus: a mouse virus with a human viral gene that can be used to test molecules that inhibit human LANA protein in an animal model of disease, treating not only human herpes virus infection but also its associated cancers.

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have created a chimera virus that allows the study of molecules to treat cancers caused by human herpes virus infection in mice models of disease.

«Our research is the first to study Zika infection in a mouse model that transmits the virus in a way similar to humans,» explains Alysson R. Muotri, Ph.D., professor and director of the Stem Cell Program at UC San Diego and co-senior author of the study.

«This raises important questions about whether human norovirus infects tuft cells and whether people who have chronic norovirus infections and continue to shed the virus long after infection do so because the virus remains hidden in tuft cells,» Wilen said.

The vaccination protects against infection from the two types of Human Papilloma Virus that cause seven in 10 cases of cervical cancer, as well as two other types of the virus linked with genital wVirus that cause seven in 10 cases of cervical cancer, as well as two other types of the virus linked with genital wvirus linked with genital warts.

But the new test found another seven, including a respiratory virus called human adenovirus B type 3A, which usually is harmless but can cause severe infections in some patients.

Among the copious species of poultry in China, quail and chickens are the likely sources of infection of H7N9 influenza virus to humans, according to a paper published ahead of print in the Journal of Virology.

The human infection most closely related to it is SARS, a bat virus that jumped to humans and spread worldwide in 2003 — notably among healthcare workers.

But the episode makes epidemiologists fear there could be undiscovered milder cases of infection by the virus, perhaps in younger people with no additional health problems, allowing the MERS virus to evolve adaptations that will help it spread between humans.

Understanding how the virus operates offers a pathway to designing antiviral drugs as well as new vaccines to control bluetongue and related viral infections in animals and humans.

The virus has caused 1,564 reported human infections to date in several epidemic waves (SN: 3/22/14, p. 32), and 39 percent of people infected have died.

In March 2013 the first human infections with the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus were reported in China, and since that time hundreds of cases have been documenteIn March 2013 the first human infections with the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus were reported in China, and since that time hundreds of cases have been documentein China, and since that time hundreds of cases have been documented.

The newly discovered viruses appeared in every family or genus of RNA virus associated with vertebrate infection, including those containing human pathogens such as influenza virus.

Unlike other human antibodies under investigation that recognize both Zika and the closely related dengue virus, the antibodies used in this study exclusively target Zika, demonstrating a high specificity that could be important in avoiding potential side effects — such as enhanced dengue infection in regions where both viruses are endemic.

«In that paper, we found a common response by the human immune system to multiple viruses that is distinct from that for bacterial infections.

«RNA interference is activated in human response to influenza, other important viruses: Discovery could lead to better ways of combating serious infections, including Ebola and Zika.»

In a new study, Yale researchers demonstrate Zika virus infection of cells derived from human placentas.

The paper focuses on two key molecular players in the story of influenza infection: a human protein called TRIM25, which was recently discovered to play an important role in the human immune response to flu infection; and a protein called NS1 present in all strains of the influenza A virus and shown to bind TRIM25 to keep it from doing its job.

In the search for mechanisms, some scientists have focused on the virus, while others prefer to examine the human host and his or her susceptibility to infection.

«However, the fact that the emerging H7N9 virus has caused infection mainly in individual human cases suggests that it has not acquired all the necessary properties for efficient transmission among humans,» notes Dr. Kuiken.

Acute infections in male marmosets, a New World monkey, resemble the human illness the Zika virus creates in people, including the presence of the virus in semen, saliva and urine up to two weeks after the initial infection.

«It appears that pregnant women infected with Zika can pass the virus to babies in utero and that newborns also may be susceptible to infection,» said Diamond, also an associate director of the university's Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs.

Researchers have used radioimmunotherapy (RIT) to destroy remaining human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected cells in the blood samples of patients treated with antiretroviral therapy, offering the promise of a strategy for curing HIV infection.

The mouse model mimics aspects of the infection in humans, with high levels of the virus seen in the mouse brain and spinal cord, consistent with evidence showing that Zika causes neurological defects in human fetuses.

The first report of infections of humans with the influenza A virus of the subtype H7N9 surfaced in March 2013.

In Britain, in 1991, researchers led by Jim Stott at the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control in north London, stunned their colleagues by announcing that they had apparently protected monkeys from infection with the monkey virus SIV — the simian equivalent of HIV — with a vaccine based simply on human T cellIn Britain, in 1991, researchers led by Jim Stott at the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control in north London, stunned their colleagues by announcing that they had apparently protected monkeys from infection with the monkey virus SIV — the simian equivalent of HIV — with a vaccine based simply on human T cellin 1991, researchers led by Jim Stott at the National Institute of Biological Standards and Control in north London, stunned their colleagues by announcing that they had apparently protected monkeys from infection with the monkey virus SIV — the simian equivalent of HIV — with a vaccine based simply on human T cellin north London, stunned their colleagues by announcing that they had apparently protected monkeys from infection with the monkey virus SIV — the simian equivalent of HIV — with a vaccine based simply on human T cells.

The new insights may one day help prevent infections by related viruses — some of which are linked to cancers in humans.

Clinicians treating patients suffering from Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) currently have no drugs specifically targeted to the MERS coronavirus (MERS - CoV), a virus first detected in humans in 2012 that has since caused 614 laboratory - confirmed infections, including 181 that were fatal, according to the World Health Organization.

The virus is common in dromedary camels, which can be a source of human infections.

The UNC research team, led by Lemon and Jason Whitmire, Ph.D., Associate Professor in UNC's Department of Genetics, is now poised to investigate the complicated interplay of nonspecific «innate» and specific «adaptive» immune responses that ultimately control the infection and eliminate HAV from the host — processes that are not well understood for any of the five human hepatitis viruses.

Researchers found 53 existing drugs that may keep the Ebola virus from entering human cells, a key step in the process of infection, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and published today in the Nature Press journal Emerging Microbes and Infections.

Scientists pre-treated human liver cells in vitro with SBEL1 prior to HCV infection and found that SBEL1 pre-treated cells contained 23 percent less HCV protein than the control, suggesting that SBEL1 blocks virus entry.

Kang found Korean red ginseng extract improved the survival of human lung epithelial cells against RSV infection and inhibited the virus from replicating, or multiplying, in the body.

Further testing and human clinical trials are needed to determine if favipiravir, also known as T - 705 and Avigan, could effectively treat Lassa virus infection in people.

Four weeks later, mice that had received the DNA vaccine were exposed to the Brazilian strain of Zika virus known to cause fetal birth defects in mice analogous to those seen following fetal Zika infection in humans.

«The unfortunate news of the virus rebounding in this child further emphasizes the need to understand the early and refractory viral reservoir that is established very quickly following HIV infection in humans,» adds Barouch, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Watkins and Dennis Burton, Ph.D., chairman and professor of the Department of Immunology & Microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute, led the collaborative international study, «Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibodies Prevents Zika Virus Infection in Macaques,» published recently in Science Translational Medicine.

These images provide the first 3D ultrastructural details on HIV infection and virus production in a setting that closely resembles the gut of human patients.

While most West Nile Virus (WNV) infections in humans are asymptomatic and go unnoticed, the virus causes serious and sometimes fatal neurologic illness in some peVirus (WNV) infections in humans are asymptomatic and go unnoticed, the virus causes serious and sometimes fatal neurologic illness in some pevirus causes serious and sometimes fatal neurologic illness in some people.

FMD in people is unrelated to hand, foot, and mouth disease, a human infection with the same symptoms, caused by the Coxsackie A16 virus and several enteroviruses.

In humans, Zika virus infection during pregnancy has been linked to a suite of birth defects including a condition known as microcephaly, which leaves babies with shrunken heads and brains (SN: 4/2/16, p. 26).