How to Use adenovirus in a Sentence

adenovirus

noun
  • The first dose used the same adenovirus as in their Ebola vaccine, called Ad5.
    New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The same could be said for the adenovirus platform used by Johnson & Johnson.
    Anne Banfield, M.d., Good Housekeeping, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Would people who get the common cold via the adenovirus also get these clots?
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The adenovirus then enters a human cell, which starts making copies of the spike proteins.
    Popular Science, 19 Feb. 2021
  • 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 | Wthornton@al.com, al, 26 Apr. 2022
  • That vehicle is an adenovirus — a type of virus that can cause cold-like symptoms.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • AstraZeneca and Oxford use the same chimpanzee adenovirus (ChAd) for both its prime and booster.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 12 Feb. 2021
  • So the military had an adenovirus type 5 vaccine for many years.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Is some part of the adenovirus mimicking platelet factor 4?
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 13 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Most of the children in the report tested positive for adenovirus.
    al, 28 Apr. 2022
  • More than half of the U.S. cases have tested positive for adenovirus, of which there are dozens of varieties.
    Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2022
  • The first dose contains an adenovirus called Ad5, and the second contains another, called Ad26.
    New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • This adenovirus vector is grown in vats of human cells in large reactors.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 2 Mar. 2021
  • An adenovirus is a head-scratching potential cause on its own.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
  • She was sickened during the adenovirus outbreak at U-Md.
    Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2021
  • But a common feature among the cases has been an infection with an adenovirus.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 25 July 2022
  • 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
  • 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 Oxford-AstraZeneca shot, for example, is based on an adenovirus.
    Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 29 May 2022
  • 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
  • Both of those vaccines are made similarly, using a cold virus known as an adenovirus, although AstraZeneca’s shot is not used in the U.S.
    chicagotribune.com, 16 Dec. 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
  • The cell line is used to grow the adenovirus that delivers the vaccine’s payload, but none of those cells — or any other fetal cells — are an ingredient in the vaccine.
    Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
  • In a small number of specimens tested to see what kind of adenovirus was present, adenovirus 41 came up every time.
    Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 23 May 2022
  • Officials suspect adenovirus may be linked to the current surge, as many of the affected kids tested positive for the virus.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 26 Apr. 2022
  • British scientists think a type of virus called an adenovirus might be behind the unusual number of cases.
    Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 29 May 2022
  • The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is what is known as an adenovirus vector vaccine.
    NBC News, 13 Oct. 2021

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