Immunology
West Nile virus in the New World: Reflections on 20 years in pursuit of an elusive foe
Array of experts on mosquito-borne disease weigh lessons learned and progress made in the Journal of Medical EntomologyCredit: Ary Farajollahi,...
Researchers find building mutations into Ebola virus protein disrupts ability to cause disease
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Creating mutations in a key Ebola virus protein that helps the deadly virus escape from the...
Mutant live attenuated Ebola virus immunizes non-human primates
Credit: Woolsey and Menicucci et al./Cell Reports Inoculation with an Ebola virus that has mutations in a protein called VP35...
Acute periodontal disease bacteria love colon and dirt microbes
Credit: Derren Ready (2012) CIL:38942, CIL. Dataset. https://doi.org/doi:10.7295/W9CIL38942 Creative Commons license True or false? Bacteria living in the same space,...
NIAID officials call for innovative research on sexually transmitted infections
Credit: NIH/NIAID WHAT: Sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, pose a significant public health challenge. Globally, more than one million new...
Australian immunology pioneer Jacques Miller wins Lasker Award
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Emeritus Professor Jacques Miller AC from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute has...
Commonly used antibiotics may lead to heart problems
Credit: UBC Scientists have shown for the first time a link between two types of heart problems and one of...
Scientists discover hidden differences among cells that may help them evade drug therapy
The discovery by UMD researchers suggests 'functional mosaicism' could explain some antibiotic resistance and cancer relapseCredit: Snusha Ravikumar/University of Maryland...
Malaria could be felled by an Antarctic sea sponge
Credit: Bill Baker The frigid waters of the Antarctic may yield a treatment for a deadly disease that affects populations...
Texas Biomed researchers pinpoint why HIV patients are more likely to develop tuberculosis
Discovery could lead to new added therapy for HIV patientsCredit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (September 11, 2019)...
Diet impacts the sensitivity of gut microbiome to antibiotics, mouse study finds
Credit: Belenky Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Antibiotics save countless lives each year from harmful bacterial infections --...
Multidrug resistance: Not as recent as we thought
Researchers from Osaka University find that a relatively ancient drug efflux pump in Haemophilus influenzae confers resistance to the same...
Study reveals how HIV infection may contribute to metabolic conditions
Credit: Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute A single viral factor released from HIV-infected cells may wreak havoc on the body...
Trapping female mosquitoes helps curb chikungunya virus
Credit: Tyler M. Sharp (CC BY 4.0) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently developed an Autocidal...
Genetic screen identifies genes that protect cells from Zika virus
Genes found to safeguard against infection as well as resuscitate infected cells, Tel Aviv University researchers say The Zika virus...
MERS-CoV vaccine is safe and induces strong immunity in Army-led first-in-human trial
SILVER SPRING, MD - A Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS CoV) vaccine candidate was shown to be safe, well-tolerated,...
Antimalarial treatments less effective in severely malnourished children
Credit: UNAMID, Albert-González-Farran Researchers have found that severe malnutrition is associated with lower exposure to the antimalarial drug lumefantrine in...
USPSTF recommends screening for hepatitis B virus infection in pregnant women
Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends screening for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in pregnant women...
NIH awards contract for acute flaccid myelitis natural history study
Credit: CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Yiting Zhang The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes...
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Rapidly spreading multidrug-resistant parasites render frontline malaria drug ineffective in southeast Asia
Preliminary data from multi-country randomised trial find that half of patients in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam not cured by first-line...