中国科学家已解码寨卡病毒基因组_科学技术

中国科学家已解码寨卡病毒基因组

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2016-02-23 06:25 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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Chinese scientists have sequenced the genome of the country's first imported Zika virus, helping¹ with prevention and diagnosis².

中国科学家已经测序寨卡病毒的基因组，这将对该病毒的预防与诊断有帮助作用。

This will lay the foundation for understanding the variations of the virus as well as developing bacteria and re-agents to diagnose the disease.

China has had confirmed two Zika cases, both were imported.

Zika causes only minor³ flu-like symptoms in adults.

However, researchers believe the virus is the likely factor behind a sharp rise in cases of microcephaly - newborns with abnormally small heads.

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1 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
参考例句：
The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。 By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

2 diagnosis
n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断
参考例句：
His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。 The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

3 minor
adj.较小(少)的，较次要的；n.辅修学科；vi.辅修
参考例句：
The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。 I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。