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University researchers find rabies follows different paths in bats
Posted: Monday, December 10, 2012 7:00 am | Updated: 11:54 pm, Sun Dec 9, 2012.
Posted on December 10, 2012
by JEANETTE KAZMIERCZAK
There?s a long way and a short way for viruses to evolve. Rabies can follow both.
Work done by University researchers on virus transmission in New World bat species has provided some early support for the theory that the number of changes a virus has to make to its genetic structure affects how quickly it establishes itself in a new host species.
?There?s been a bit of kind of conceptual theory on this, and it completely makes sense,? said Daniel Streicker, a post-doctoral student in the Odum School of Ecology and the lead author in the study. ?If a virus or a pathogen or whatever it is has to make fewer changes to successfully transmit itself in a second species then presumably that should happen faster, and it should be easier.?
Sonia Altizer, associate dean of the Odum School of Ecology, along with Andr?s Velasco-Villa and Charles E. Rupprecht of the Poxvirus and Rabies Branch of the CDC were the study?s co-authors. The article was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
University researchers find rabies follows different paths in bats
Posted: Monday, December 10, 2012 7:00 am | Updated: 11:54 pm, Sun Dec 9, 2012.
Posted on December 10, 2012
by JEANETTE KAZMIERCZAK
There?s a long way and a short way for viruses to evolve. Rabies can follow both.
Work done by University researchers on virus transmission in New World bat species has provided some early support for the theory that the number of changes a virus has to make to its genetic structure affects how quickly it establishes itself in a new host species.
?There?s been a bit of kind of conceptual theory on this, and it completely makes sense,? said Daniel Streicker, a post-doctoral student in the Odum School of Ecology and the lead author in the study. ?If a virus or a pathogen or whatever it is has to make fewer changes to successfully transmit itself in a second species then presumably that should happen faster, and it should be easier.?
Sonia Altizer, associate dean of the Odum School of Ecology, along with Andr?s Velasco-Villa and Charles E. Rupprecht of the Poxvirus and Rabies Branch of the CDC were the study?s co-authors. The article was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...