How to Use adenovirus in a Sentence

adenovirus

noun
  • And compared to the flu at least, adenovirus may not have that.
    — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Would people who get the common cold via the adenovirus also get these clots?
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • That vehicle is an adenovirus — a type of virus that can cause cold-like symptoms.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • An adenovirus is a head-scratching potential cause on its own.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
  • So the military had an adenovirus type 5 vaccine for many years.
    — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • This adenovirus vector is grown in vats of human cells in large reactors.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The adenovirus then enters a human cell, which starts making copies of the spike proteins.
    — Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Four of the eight samples contained the rhinovirus or adenovirus, which both cause cold-like symptoms.
    — Martine Powers, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Both of these companies are using a common cold virus called an adenovirus as their vector.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
  • But a common feature among the cases has been an infection with an adenovirus.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
  • The first dose used the same adenovirus as in their Ebola vaccine, called Ad5.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The different types of adenovirus can cause a range of illnesses in humans.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2018
  • The same could be said for the adenovirus platform used by Johnson & Johnson.
    — Anne Banfield, M.d., Good Housekeeping, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Most of the children in the report tested positive for adenovirus.
    — al, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Vaxzevria consists of an adenovirus engineered to infect cells and prompt them to produce the virus's spike protein.
    — Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The adenovirus is used as a viral vector to carry a single coronavirus gene into the body.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Sure enough, the adenovirus shell and PF4 were attracted to each other.
    — Melina Walling, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
  • While adenovirus can cause hepatitis, this is the first time the adenovirus-41 strain has been linked to a cluster of severe cases.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 26 Apr. 2022
  • AstraZeneca also uses an adenovirus vector platform, and it too has been linked to very small numbers of rare blood clots.
    — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The vaccine uses an adenovirus that is incapable of replication, so there is no risk of getting a cold from the vaccine.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 4 May 2021
  • By including the spikes on the adenovirus, the vaccine should train the body to recognize and fight the novel coronavirus spike as well.
    — Amanda Morris, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In the case of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the kind of adenovirus being used is one normally found in chimpanzees.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Other viruses, such as the adenovirus, are more resistant and require a higher dose of UV.
    — Kaiser Health News, The Denver Post, 24 July 2020
  • The Oxford-AstraZeneca shot, for example, is based on an adenovirus.
    — Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 29 May 2022
  • AstraZeneca and Oxford use the same chimpanzee adenovirus (ChAd) for both its prime and booster.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2021
  • In the 1990s, researchers added genes to an adenovirus to make an enzyme that was missing in a genetic disorder.
    — John Lauerman, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Both vaccines use the same technology, called an adenovirus, to teach the immune system to fight the virus that causes Covid-19.
    — NBC News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • The vaccine contains an inactivated adenovirus that cannot replicate, a type of virus that can cause the common cold, called Ad26.
    — Dr. Adjoa Smalls-Mantey, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Whereas viruses need a host cell to reproduce, an AAV needs both a cell and the co-infection of an adenovirus to multiply.
    — Steven Phelps, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The first dose contains an adenovirus called Ad5, and the second contains another, called Ad26.
    — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021

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