Sentence examples for flu resistance from inspiring English sources

In this study, we sought to assess the contribution of eIF4E to fludarabine (FLU) resistance in primary chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) lymphocytes as this nucleoside analog is used as a first-line treatment for the disease.

In the first case, unless no FLU resistance is present locally among any CG isolates, a clinician may be forced to generalize that all non-albicans species be treated as if they were FLU resistant.

In contrast, our results indicate that, albeit FLU does not affect eIF4E phosphorylation status, MNK inhibition can sensitize primary CLL samples to FLU, thus suggesting that basal phosphorylation of eIF4E (in contrast to drug-induced phosphorylation) contributes to FLU resistance in U-IgVH samples.

Recent emergences of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) and reports of flu virus resistance to antiviral drugs are of great concern.

The Lancet report, however, suggests that flu virus develops resistance to oseltamivir more readily than was thought.

Many strains of H5N1 influenza A, also known as avian influenza or "bird flu," have shown resistance to rimantadine and amantadine.

Their efforts to persuade the agriculture ministry to co-operate over livestock-related threats to public health, such as bird flu, have encountered stubborn resistance.

Nor is weather the only danger: pandemic flu, nuclear weapons, antibiotic resistance, environmental catastrophe and chronic food shortages could also offer dire threats to civilisation as we know it.

A Danish swine flu patient has developed resistance against the most widely used influenza drug, oseltamivir.

Frequent mutations of surface molecules, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), contribute to low efficacy of the annual flu vaccine and therapeutic resistance to standard antiviral agents.

The drugs, taken orally, have to be given soon after infection to be effective, however, and some flu strains have developed resistance against them.