Temperature difference in the upper and lower respiratory tract influences SARS-CoV-2 replication
A team of researchers from the Institute for Infectious Diseases (IFIK) at the University of...
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HIV spreads through direct cell-to-cell contact: Researchers investigate infection dynamics in tissue-like three-dimensional cell cultures
The spread of pathogens like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is often studied in a...
Gut microbes protect against neurologic damage from viral infections
Gut microbes produce compounds that prime immune cells to destroy harmful viruses in the brain...
Capturing mosquito waste could speed up virus detection: Proof-of-concept test results in first-ever detection of viruses in field-collected mosquito waste
Public health officials could soon be able to detect viruses in mosquitoes in the wild...
How well do vaccines work? Research reveals measles vaccine efficacy
The recent measles outbreaks across the country emphasize the importance of vaccinations. "For many infectious...
A lack of antibody diversity may make the elderly more susceptible to the flu
The influenza vaccine may be less effective in the elderly because their B cells are...
Viral production is not essential for deaths caused by food-borne pathogen
The replication of a bacterial virus is not necessary to cause lethal disease in a...
Schizophrenia linked with abnormal immune response to Epstein-Barr virus
New research from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Sheppard Pratt Health System shows that people in...
AIDS: An approach for targeting HIV reservoirs
Current HIV treatments need to be taken for life by those infected as antiretroviral therapy...
New knowledge about retrovirus-host coevolution
Retroviruses have colonised vertebrate hosts for millions of years by inserting their genes into host...