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Caption: Researchers led by Dr. Michael Gale (right), associate professor of microbiology, compared the genetics of an illness-causing Texas strain of the West Nile virus to a harmless African strain and discovered that the virus evades the body’s immune defenses by blocking immune signaling by a protein receptor, a finding that could pave the way for a vaccine. Brian Keller, a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program, is first author of the study.
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