News tagged with dengue virus
Population movement can be critical factor in dengue's spread
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Human movement is a key factor of dengue virus inflow in Rio de Janeiro, according to results from researchers based at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Brazil. The results, based on data from a severe epidemic in ...
Rethinking the antibody-dependent enhancement dengue hemorrhagic fever model
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Research published this week in PLoS Medicine challenges the dogma of the antibody-dependent enhancement model (ADE) for the development of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF).
Singaporean scientists conduct world's first remote X-ray scattering experiment
May 26, 2009 |
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On 26th May, Nanyang Technological University's School of Biological Science (SBS) will pioneer the world's first remotely controlled Solution X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) experiment. The experiment will be initiated from Singapore ...
Scientists identify host factors critical to dengue virus infection
Apr 22, 2009 |
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By painstakingly silencing genes one at a time, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified dozens of proteins the dengue fever virus depends upon to grow and spread among mosquitoes and humans.
Researchers determine how mosquitoes survive dengue virus infection
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Colorado State University researchers have discovered that mosquitoes that transmit deadly viruses such as dengue avoid becoming ill by mounting an immediate, potent immune response. Because their immune system does not eliminate ...
New test may help to ensure that dengue vaccines do no harm
Feb 12, 2009 |
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As vaccines against a virus that infects 100 million people annually reach late-stage clinical trials this year, researchers have developed a test to better predict whether a given vaccine candidate should protect patients ...
Spatial and temporal clustering of dengue virus transmission in Thai villages
Nov 04, 2008 |
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In a new study reported in PLoS Medicine, Mammen P. Mammen Jr. of the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) in Bangkok and colleagues investigated the spread of dengue virus infection in rural Thai v ...
Smaller mosquitoes are more likey to be infected with viruses causing human diseases
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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An entomologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey, a division of the new UI Institute for Natural Resource Sustainability, says smaller mosquitoes are more likely to be infected with viruses that cause diseases in humans. ...
