Sentences with phrase «works against the vaccine»

If your dog is infected when he receives vaccine or if he has an antibody that works against the vaccine, he may still develop kennel cough.

Not exact matches

Because the swine flu virus was traced on the evolutionary tree to see how it mutated and thus develop a vaccine that works against it.

At first he worked on a vaccine against Chagas disease, but then he noticed some recent findings made by other researchers in the lab.

This genome could provide a comprehensive understanding of how treatments against parasitic worms work and point to further new treatments and vaccines.

There may also be other applications from this work, they say: Researchers could similarly take other viruses apart in the lab, scour them for important mutations and create vaccines against a plethora of other infections.

Orme and his research team in Fort Collins investigated whether the existing vaccine for TB, which goes by the acronym BCG (bacille Calmette - Guerin), worked equally well against different clinical strains of tuberculosis.

Scientists have already developed a potato that boosts immunity against Hepatitis B, and are working on vaccine - producing peanuts.

The team claims its work, funded by Tonix, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, could lead to a safer, more effective vaccine against smallpox.

Rocke's lab is working on a topical vaccine against white - nose syndrome, which threatens bats (SN Online: 3/31/16), and one to combat rabies in common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus).

VaxInnate is testing a universal flu vaccine that would work against all strains of the disease by using a Toll - like receptor (TLR) technology platform.

Conventional vaccines work by triggering the immune system into manufacturing antibodies against an infectious organism, but such a vaccine has proved elusive for the rapidly mutating HIV.

And because they work against all flu, such vaccines can be stockpiled to prepare for pandemics.

With support from GSK, which produces vaccines against viruses causing severe diarrhea and pneumonia and is working on a vaccine against malaria, Delahaye refined his idea to focus on a nutraceutical to be administered during vaccination campaigns.

However, researchers are working to develop universal vaccines that could protect against multiple flu strains without needing to be updated.

Studies have shown that flu vaccines work better at protecting against influenza B or influenza A H1N1 viruses than influenza A H3N2.

Will reduced - dosage IPV work against a revived vaccine virus even as we cut corners on dosage?

Already scientists at Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, Maryland — a biotech company affiliated with Venter's research institute — have begun working on a more effective vaccine against Haemophilus.

This makes it «much, much easier» to make a vaccine that might work against the many different variations of the virus in circulation, she said.

«Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines: Tests in mice show the vaccines work against Ebola, influenza, and common parasite.»

An HFMD vaccine against enterovirus 71 is in the works.

«The findings from this trial are very encouraging to those of us who have spent many years working on vaccine candidates to protect against dengue, a disease that is a significant burden in much of the world and is now endemic in Puerto Rico,» said Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D., of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

The flu vaccine works by exposing the body to parts of inactivated flu from the three major different types of flu that infect humans, prompting the immune system to develop antibodies against these viruses.

One problem revealed by the trial was that only 38 percent of vaccinated subjects developed high levels of antibodies against the drug; Kosten is working to increase the vaccine's antibody generation.

The winners of the prize are Maged Al - Sherbiny from Egypt, for his research on vaccines and diagnostics against hepatitis C and schistosomiasis; plant scientist Felix Dapare Dakora from Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, in South Africa for his work on legumes and soil bacteria; and Rossana Arroyo of the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of Mexico's National Polytechnic Institute, who studies trichomoniasis, a parasitic disease.

Instead of working through antibody - mediated immunity, Liang says successful prophylactic vaccines against the virus might have to work through cell - mediated immunity, which means immune cells are taught to attack infected cells.

The vaccine lowers infection risk — it works very well against influenza B — and may also minimize the risk of severe infection.

The new vaccine, however, works against an Ebola strain that infects humans.

And in still other work that Janda will discuss at the meeting, the Scripps team has made progress in developing a vaccine against captagon, a highly addictive drug consisting of amphetamine linked to theophylline, a drug chemically related to caffeine, that is a major problem in the Middle East.

The work, directed by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., found that some study participants who reported receiving flu vaccines had a strong immune response not only against the seasonal H3N2 flu strain from 2010, when blood samples were collected for analysis, but also against flu subtypes never included in any vaccine formulation.

«In addition to how well a vaccine works to protect against disease, safety is another important aspect for vaccine development,» said Chopra.

«We've been working to develop a vaccine that will generate long - term immunity and protection against the plague.»

Another possibility that Irvine's lab is working on is developing treatments that could be used against tumors even when scientists don't know of a specific vaccine target for that type of tumor.

Early tests of a gp120 vaccine looked promising, but optimism faded by the early 1990s as researchers learned the vaccine only worked against strains of HIV that had adapted to conditions in the laboratory.

Today is the 74th birthday of Baruch Blumberg, an American research physician whose work has led to blood screening and a vaccine against hepatitis B.

The work should help provide targets for better drugs against S. pneumoniae, which is increasingly becoming resistant to existing therapies, as well as vaccines.

Scientists have been working for decades to develop a vaccine against malaria, but the Plasmodium parasite is a formidable foe.

Advocates of the vaccine point out that the jabs work against human papillomavirus (HPV)-- which causes virtually all cases of cervical cancer — and are safe.

Batista was one of a number of scientists involved in the study from the Ragon Institute, established in the Boston area by experts from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the goal of working toward development of an effective vaccine against HIV / AIDS.

The discovery could help to explain why vaccines against hepatitis B fail to work in some individuals and may help to identify those people who need extra protection.

Dr. Schief's work focuses on computation - guided and structure - based design of immunogens and immunization regimens, with the goal of inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV and other pathogens that have frustrated traditional vaccine design strategies.

The scientific work at the HZI Department of Vaccinology and Applied Microbiology includes the elucidation of mechanisms of host responses to infection and vaccination, discovering new mucosal adjuvants, and developing and validating vaccines against specific infectious diseases.

This understanding of how HIV - 1's «invisibility cloak» works could lead to the development of effective vaccines against HIV - 1.

Aeras and our partners are working diligently to develop vaccines to protect against all forms of TB everywhere.

«These genetic differences between people are the biggest reason why it is difficult to make a vaccine that works for everyone — people respond differently, and not all the responses will protect against disease.

Immunologists are working on vaccines that don't need to be reformulated each year: «universal vaccines» that induce broad immunity, protecting against current and future strains of flu by mechanisms that are not just dependent on antibody.

The primary focus will be to work as a member of the team responsible for delineating the immune response against nairoviruses to aid effective vaccine design.

Dr. Baldwin has been at IDRI for over six years and currently works on projects related to development of next - generation vaccines against infectious diseases.

She completed her doctorate work in Dr. Ian Orme's laboratory where she focused on the development of several novel vaccines against M. tuberculosis.

An experimental vaccine poised to win World Health Organization approval as the first to even partially protect children against malaria works better against one strain of the disease - causing parasite than others.

While there he got my first real taste of microbiology and the BSL3, working on a vaccine against the pneumonic plague.