时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2011年(十二月)


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Dengue Severity Depends on Prior Infection, Genetic 1 Variation


 


American and Nicaraguan scientists have discovered the reason why a second infection with dengue can often be much more serious, even fatal, than the first.



Dengue is a viral disease spread by mosquitoes. The World Health Organization estimates there may be 50 million infections worldwide every year.



In some cases it causes only a mild fever. In others, the virus can cause a potentially fatal complication called dengue hemorrhagic fever.



Why some cases are mild and others are severe has been something of a mystery that scientists in the U.S. and Nicaragua have now unraveled.



There are four major varieties, or "serotypes" of dengue, and lots of genetic variation within each serotype. Also, in areas where dengue is endemic, people are often infected more than once. The first infection may result in only mild symptoms, and the body produces antibodies that will protect against the particular variety that infected them.



"Those antibodies don't necessarily work against another version of the virus, and those antibodies actually help the other version of the virus to infect the cells that it wants to infect," explained researcher Matthew Henn, of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.









Scientists have unraveled the mystery of why some cases of dengue are mild while others are severe.




He said that severe symptoms are more likely when a dengue infection of a particular sub-variety meets a victim whose previous exposure to a different dengue virus has produced a particular set of antibodies.



"And if you have a certain combination of that, you're more prone 2 to get severe forms of the disease."



Henn says the findings of his study have implications for the so-far unsuccessful efforts to develop a dengue vaccine 3. For example, the vaccine may have to be modified to account for subtypes of the virus that dominate in a particular area.



"There's a good chance that any kind of vaccine that we design for dengue is really going to have to be fine-tuned to the local setting that it may need to be used in."



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  • It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
  • Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
adj.(to)易于…的,很可能…的;俯卧的
  • Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.有些人往往作出轻率的结论。
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