Selected Highlights from the 2011 Retrovirus Conferenceby
Paul T.
after the monkeys were exposed to a combination monkey/human HIV virus. If future studies indicate that ARV-based...
The 2011 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held in Boston...
FDA to Investigate Vaccines for XMRV Retrovirusby
Kim S.Viruses in Cells Used to make Vaccines; and Evaluating the Potential Threat Posed by Transmission of Viruses to Humans. XMRV is prominently featured as a virus about which they are concerned. Please feel...
Lions and Tigers and Endogenic Retroviruses, oh my!by
Randy P.
of paleovirology, or the study of ancient retroviruses. Because retroviruses encode themselves into the DNA of their hosts, they are the only viruses that theoretically could enter the germ line and be passed down...
Health Headlines - February 26by
Meredy
New Virus May Have Come from Monkeys, Experts Say
Two new retroviruses never before seen in humans have turned up among people who regularly hunt monkeys in Cameroon, researchers reported on Friday...
Vaccine Contamination: Pig Virus DNA Found in Rotarixby
Kim S.virus (a retrovirus) was found in measles vaccine and DNA fragments of a virus similar to simian (monkey.... The reassortment viruses were transported to Merck, where master seeds were produced using African Green Monkey...
Immunization Provokes XMRV Activation in Monkey Modelby
Kim S.
infection in primates, and surprisingly the possible triggers for activation of the retrovirus. The work...-related virus) as my daughter with autism/seizures and my wife have both tested positive...
Molecular Model of Prion Transmission to Humansby
Terry S.
were transmitted to squirrelmonkeys (Saimiri sciureus) that were exposed to the infectious agents... exposed to the virus of kuru was 36 months; that in the two monkeys exposed to the virus of Creutzfeldt...
CWD ILLINOIS UPDATE 2010by
Terry S.
Marsh into ferret, mink and squirrelmonkey. Transmission occurred in all of these species... it to studies of two primate species, squirrelmonkeys and Cynomolgus macaques. We also compared intracerebral...