Sentence examples for detecting the virus from inspiring English sources

The controversy surrounding the role of HPV in breast cancer may be because of the difficulty that has been encountered in detecting the virus in breast specimens, in contrast to the relative ease of detection in cervical cancers (Lindel et al, 2007; Khan et al, 2008).

As part of a regional program aimed at detecting the virus, which can cause encephalitis in humans and can be fatal, state officials have been testing dead birds and mosquitoes and taking blood samples from live chickens, which carry the virus but do not get sick from it.

At the news conference, the Simon Fraser researchers said Fred Kibenge, a researcher at Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island, the global center for tests detecting the virus, had confirmed its presence in the two fish.

If tests for detecting the virus can be made that are cheap enough and fast enough to be used by farmers in the field, epidemics could be controlled without having to cull huge numbers of uninfected cattle, as happens now.

Yuen notes that the findings also explain clinical anomalies such as why nasal swabs of H5N1 patients are less reliable than throat swabs in detecting the virus.

Current RT-PCR based diagnostic methods for RRV are time consuming and are inconsistent in detecting the virus from symptomatic plants.

In one case, the tests failed to detect the virus.

So scientists continue to rely primarily on mosquito surveillance to detect the virus.

Tests also detected the virus in two mosquito samples collected this month on Staten Island, officials said.

Meanwhile, both the Pasteur Institute and Gallo's team applied for patents for a test that could detect the virus.

He said they could detect the virus in a type of white blood cell known as the T-lymphocyte, the second type of white blood cell in which scientists have detected the SARS virus.