Immunology

Credit: Vittoria Colizza and colleagues The COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread in China and cases have been reported in more...

New CDC research shows DEET and other EPA-approved repellents are effective against the invasive speciesCredit: James Gathany, CDC Public Health...

The VP40 protein, encoded by one of Ebola's seven genes, has a region that is crucial for binding to the...

Results support testing antiviral against 2019 novel coronavirusCredit: NIAID-Frederick The experimental antiviral remdesivir successfully prevented disease in rhesus macaques infected...

A promising clinical candidate in the fight against antimicrobial resistanceCredit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (February 12, 2020) - A new...

NIH officials describe 'banner year'Credit: NIAID WHAT: In September 2018, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part...

Blue Water Vaccines licenses patent rights to streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine developed at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; fully attenuated vaccine...

Private insurance claim lines for STDs rose 76 % from 2007 to 2018Credit: fairhealth.org NEW YORK, NY--February 11, 2020--Private insurance...

Vaccine would be the first to protect against tularemia in the United StatesCredit: The University of Texas at San Antonio...

Transgenic fruit flies help scientists trace the cascade of symptoms caused by toxic infectionCredit: Bier Lab, UC San Diego The...

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) The situation is extraordinary: there have only ever been four declarations...

A study performed with children from Mozambique and Tanzania indicates that anaemia could reduce vaccine efficacyCredit: ISGlobal Age and geographical...

Research aims to boost vaccination efficacy in the populations where it matters mostCredit: Image courtesy of Dr Natalia Guimaraes Sampaio...

Credit: Christian Heuss Children's immune system composition and vaccine responsiveness is determined by a myriad of factors, such as age,...

Researchers also report that travel-related screening for coronavirus will identify less than half of those infectedCredit: Dan Higgins/Courtesy of CDC/Douglas...

Activating a mosquito's immune system can prevent it from transmitting the parasites that cause canine heartworm and human lymphatic filariasis,...

Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Center for Infection...

A joint press release of the University Hospital Cologne and the German Center for Infection ResearchCredit: Uniklinik Koeln/Thies Schoening Antiretroviral...

Credit: NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Infectious disease scientists identified strains of group A streptococcus that...

Licensed drugs effective in cellsCredit: Photo: Müller/Charité Joint press release by Charité and the DZIF First identified in 2012, the...