Here are five insights:
1. Established in 2011, the PREDEMICS project has studied ways to detect rabies, HIV and Ebola. Researchers have been able to pinpoint viral mechanisms that are able to bypass the host’s immunity.
2. When studying the influenza virus, researchers analyzed transmission routes in animals with antiviral drug-sensitive and resistant viruses.
3. The researchers discovered that animals with a mixed infection of viruses that were “resistant and sensitive to the antiviral drug oseltamivir,” spread resistance through contact transmission. That is, “transmission events with a looser bottleneck can propagate minority variants and may be an important route for influenza evolution,” according to Medical Xpress.
4. PREDEMICS also contributed to two studies on Zika, which The Lancet published.
5. All PREDEMICS research is accessible via a data-sharing platform. The project draws to a close in October 2016.
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