Sentence examples for maintaining the virus from inspiring English sources

"It makes a very strong case that snakes play an important role in maintaining the virus".

Although speculative at this point, together with the literature data, this may suggest that especially type I IFNs, as a crucial factor of the innate antiviral immunity, may be of importance during establishment of latency whereas type II IFN produced by the adaptive immunity are of crucial importance in maintaining the virus in a latent state and preventing reactivation.

Wildlife reservoirs likely play an important role in maintaining the virus, particularly during interepizootic periods.

Several vertebrate hosts, mainly primates, rodents, and birds, are considered to be reservoirs, although their exact role in maintaining the virus is insufficiently understood (2 ).

The contact structure of the herds has previously been found to be an important factor for maintaining the virus within a farm [ 35].

Our findings of OvHV-2 DNA in the semen of asymptomatic boars suggest that the OvHV-2 in the sows and gilts originated from asymptomatic boars that were responsible for maintaining the virus in the herd.

Regions highlighted with a high number of predicted wildlife hosts have heightened risk of spillover of flaviviruses because we suspect there is a higher likelihood of suitable sylvatic hosts that could maintain the virus in nature.

If a fetus is infected in utero during the first 120 days of gestation the resulting calf will be immunotolerant to the infecting strain and maintain the virus for life.

The virus is maintained in a state of latency in memory B-lymphocytes and occasional reactivation and replication is considered to maintain the virus within individuals [5].

The snr37 Δ and snr46 Δ mutants stably maintained the virus, but showed reductions in zones of killer activity phenotypes (Kw).

This sylvatic cycle might maintain the virus during interepidemic periods.