Sentences with phrase «which infects humans»

(HIV - 2, which infects humans much more infrequently, clearly comes from an SIV in sooty mangabeys.)

Not exact matches

which was brought on from sitting at the PC eating chips and dip all day arguing with other gods saying humans do exist just look at my pimple it is infected.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

Contact with live poultry infected with H7N9 flu appears to be the main means of transmission of this disease to humans, which has affected over 200 people since last spring, killing over 50.

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

Another important summer health problem that you should look out for are ticks, which when infected, can spread Lyme disease to humans.

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).

Chagas disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which, in different forms, infects both humans and insects.

The team found that when LANA is cloned into a virus similar to Kaposi, but which infects mice instead of humans, it preserves its functionality.

Shukla and colleagues discovered that a small drug molecule called BX795, which is sold to labs for use in experiments, helped clear HSV - 1 infection in cultured human corneal cells, in donated human corneas, and in the corneas of mice infected with HSV - 1.

In 2007, the virus — which normally infects birds and occasionally jumps from birds to humans — affected seven countries, prompting experts to warn that it could gain the ability to jump from person to person and trigger a pandemic.

The protein, they found, preferentially binds to human endothelial cells, allowing the retrovirus, which would not normally infect human cells, to enter them.

Benzoquinoline was also effective against vesicular stomatitis virus from the rhabdovirus family, which can infect insects, cattle, horses and pigs, and Zika virus, which is spread to humans by mosquitoes.

These animals are common hosts for the influenza virus, which comes in a wide range of strengths and types — some of which can infect humans.

Wolbachia bacteria, which do not infect humans, cause the eggs of female mosquitoes that mate with infected males to fail to hatch.

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.

This surely contributes to the rarity or nonexistence of human - to - human transmission of rabies (acquired by the bite of an infected dog or bat); cat - scratch disease (which causes skin lesions and swollen lymph nodes); tularemia (a disease, often acquired when hunting and cutting up an infected rabbit, that can cause skin ulcers, swollen lymph nodes, and fever); and BSE (probably acquired by eating the nervous system tissue of infected cows).

The scientists identified several, including the investigational cancer drug BEZ235, which blocked a key metabolic pathway in flu - infected human lung epithelial cells.

Transmission between humans is limited, however, which indicates that these viruses can not directly infect humans.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

The researchers tested that idea by infecting newborn mice (which developmentally resemble a human fetus) with different lab - made versions of Zika.

The researchers found 36 viruses, including six new viruses, none of which are known to infect humans.

No vaccine currently exists for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and there is no cure for AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), which currently infects 34 million around the globe.

The issue has become a lightning rod for debate because the only thing standing between H5N1 bird flu, which infects birds in half a dozen countries in Asia and in Egypt, and a nasty pandemic is that the virus is hard for humans to catch.

The scientists, who will work collaboratively with Rothamsted Research, Wageningen University and Radboud University, hope their research will enable the identification of the chemical compounds in human odour to which mosquitoes are attracted and to determine whether infected mosquitoes respond differently to those compounds.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

-- Hyperimmune globulin, prepared by purifying and concentrating plasma of immunized animals or previously infected humans with high titers (concentrations) of neutralizing antibody against Ebola virus, which have been shown to be protective in monkeys but are not currently available and would not be expected before mid-2015.

Her parasite of choice eventually became Toxoplasma gondii, which is estimated to infect one - third of humans.

Seven major groups have been identified, three of which (groups A, B, and C) infect humans, with group A being the most common and widespread one.

Both manuscripts detail the role of the same AP2 - G transcriptional regulator with remarkably similar findings — despite the different groups» having worked with two highly diverged malaria parasites: Plasmodium falciparum, which causes the most severe form of human malaria and Plasmodium berghei, a commonly used model parasite infecting rodents.

Moving to an animal model, they applied the nanoparticles and hydrogen peroxide topically to the teeth of rats, which can develop tooth decay when infected with S. mutans just as humans do.

Such homologies have been found by computer searches in which decapeptides in two human myelin proteins were compared with proteins of viruses known to infect humans.

«We compared the ability of RSV and parainfluenza virus (PIV3)-- another common virus in children that causes much less severe airway disease — to infect and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway.

Or an H5N1 virus that has infected a person could swap some of its eight genes with those of a human flu virus — keeping its hemagglutinin (HA) surface protein, to which people have no immunity.

The bacterial peptide found to activate MS patients» T cells came from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common inhabitant of human skin which can infect wounds.

Using X-ray crystallography, performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, Cusack and colleagues were able to determine the atomic structure of the whole polymerase from two strains of influenza: influenza B, one of the strains that cause seasonal flu in humans, but which evolves slowly and therefore isn't considered a pandemic threat; and the strain of influenza A — the fast - evolving strain that affects humans, birds and other animals and can cause pandemics — that infects bats.

Goodrum seeks to uncover the mechanisms by which human cytomegalovirus — a herpesvirus that infects many people — establishes its lifelong latent infection.

The Harvard researchers have also implicated two cancer - causing viruses: human papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer, and Epstein - Barr virus, which infects about 95 per cent of people and has been linked to several types of tumour.

Vaccines made from the brains of infected animals protect humans and animals, but the serum can contain impurities which cause encephalitis — a dangerous inflammation of the brain.

When researchers sequenced the chimpanzee genome in 2005, the biggest difference between it and the human genome was the extinct PtERV1 retrovirus, which inserted its DNA into the cells it infected like HIV does today.

They based their approach on a system they had previously developed for studying the hepatitis C virus, in which they were able to successfully infect human hepatocytes with the virus and use it to compare antiviral regimens.

Garcez and her colleagues at the Instituto D'Or in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil are starting experiments in which they will infect so - called cerebral organoids — tiny models of the developing human brain — with Zika virus and see whether their development is affected.

The monkey model has its own limitations: Monkeys don't develop severe disease when infected with different serotypes of dengue virus, which clearly happens in humans.

The genetic modification resulted in fewer mosquitoes becoming infected, and most of those that did had very low levels of dengue virus in their salivary glands, the location from which it gets transmitted to humans.

The team infected mice with the 1918 virus, a modern human flu strain, and hybrids of the two in which either two or five of influenza's eight genes came from the 1918 virus.

The team also collected blood samples, which confirmed that more than 25 percent of the monkeys had been infected with human astroviruses.

Tests there revealed it was contaminated with the highly virulent H5N1 avian influenza strain, which can infect and sicken humans.

The team found that the Lone Star virus, which is carried by the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum, is related to a group of human pathogens including Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus, which infected hundreds of farmers in China between 2008 and 2010; Bhanja virus, initially found in India; Palma virus, found in Portugal; and Heartland virus, an illness recently reported among farmers in Missouri.

Given that adipose tissue (which makes up between 15 and 20 % of the body weight in healthy people) is a source of inflammation in obese individuals, Christine Bourgeois and Olivier Lambotte, from the University Paris SUD, France, and colleagues, decided to investigate a possible role of the adipose tissue in humans infected with HIV and in macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV, an HIV relative that causes AIDS - like disease in some non-human primates).