pox in Biological News

Jeepers creepers: Climate change threatens endangered honeycreepers

... endangered, and only 3 are in decent shape. pox and malaria transmission in Hawaii depends on ... honeycreepers after the introduction of avian pox and avian malaria was the presence of ... is caused by a protozoan parasite, and avian pox is a viral infection that typically causes ...

A step forward in virology

... of particularly dangerous viruses, namely the pox viruses. The most infamous member, Variola, the ... America who became infected by European settlers. pox was the first viral disease against which a ... however, fear bioterrorist attacks with pox viruses. Research on these dangerous pathogens is ...

The good, the bad and the smelly: USGS at the 2008 Coral Reef Symposium

... St. John that ranged from 0 to 52 percent, with high levels of white pox and low levels of white band disease. White pox lesions often heal. In addition, A. palmata in the U.S. Virgin Islands ...

Pitt researchers find promising candidate protein for cancer prevention vaccines

... the immune response most likely developed during a childhood viral infection, when inflammatory responses are strong. Cells infected with chicken pox virus, for example, look very much like tumor cells because they, too, overproduce cyclin B1. The virus actually packages the host protein, which ...

Nature Medicine study shows Peregrine's bavituximab can cure lethal virus infections

... of cells infected with HIV, influenza (including avian flu), herpes simplex viruses, hemorrhagic fever viruses, measles and members of the small pox and rabies virus families. Dr. Barton Haynes, director of Duke University's Human Vaccine Institute and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology ...

Hospitalizations because of chicken pox down dramatically since implementation of vaccine

... and doctor visits because of chicken pox have dropped dramatically, according to a study ... hospitalization and ambulatory visits for chicken pox and their associated medical expenditures in the ... period to 2002, hospitalizations due to chicken pox declined by 88 percent (from 2.3 to 0.3 per ...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

... most devastating trick in cellular weaponry of pox viruses like smallpox, Arizona State University ... that he can turn the biochemical machinery of the pox viruses against themselves ?and protect the ... and his team's discovery of a gene that gives pox viruses uncanny ability to camouflage themselves ...

New vaccine prevents CMV infection and disease in mice

... of two essential genes that are essential for replication of the virus. These genes – which are also found in other herpes viruses such as chicken pox or herpes simplex – have the same or very similar sequence, structure and function whether in human or mouse viruses, and present a novel target for ...

Scientists find a key to immune system's ability to remember

... ability to accurately catalog and recall long past encounters with viruses, bacteria and other pathogens is why we only get the measles or chicken pox once, and is why exposure to deactivated virus particles in vaccines confers protection from disease. But how that memory system works -- how it ...

Innovative method for creating a human cytomegalovirus vaccine outlined

... risk for complications. The virus is a member of the herpes virus family, which includes the herpes simplex viruses, the viruses that cause chicken pox (varicella-zoster virus), and infectious mononucleosis (Epstein-Barr virus.) Infectious transmission is via body fluids. ...

LIAI scientists make major finding on potential smallpox treatment

... by creating a batch of the anti-H3 protein antibodies, which they injected into mice. "We were able to protect them from a strain of vaccinia pox virus that is very similar to smallpox and which is lethal to mice." The National Institutes of Health is now funding further research by Dr. ...

MUHC scientists describe genetic resistance to rampant virus

... widespread virus, cytomegalovirus (CMV)--a member of the viral group that causes some of the world's most prevalent diseases, such as herpes, chicken pox and mononucleosis. The groundbreaking research published in Nature Genetics last week, provides a roadmap for the development of human therapies for ...