Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HIV-specific CD8+ T-cell proliferative response 24 weeks after early antiretroviral therapy initiation predicts the subsequent reduction of the viral reservoir

    Pien M van Paassen, Alexander O Pasternak ... the Netherlands Cohort Study on Acute HIV Infection (NOVA) study team
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Stratification of viral shedding patterns in saliva of COVID-19 patients

    Hyeongki Park, Raiki Yoshimura ... Taiga Miyazaki
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The role of co-infection in the pathogenesis of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection and development of post-acute sequelae: A perspective

    Timothy J Henrich, Christopher P Montgomery ... Maria Laura Gennaro
    Unraveling mechanisms underlying post-acute SARS-CoV-2 sequelae (long COVID) and finding therapeutic solutions require a full understanding of the causative role of SARS-CoV-2 persistence and/or infection with other microorganisms, which may be pre-existing, concurrent, or subsequent to acute COVID-19.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Apparent cooperativity between human CMV virions introduces errors in conventional methods of calculating multiplicity of infection

    Christopher Peterson, Joshua Miller ... Vitaly V Ganusov
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An in vitro human vessel model to study Neisseria meningitidis colonization and vascular damages

    Léa Pinon, Mélanie Chabaud ... Guillaume Duménil
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Nanoscopy Reveals Heparan Sulfate Clusters as Docking Sites for SARS-CoV-2 Attachment and Entry

    Sue Han, Xin Wang ... Ling-Gang Wu
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Incomplete
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Innate immune memory: The evolving role of macrophages in therapy

    Payal Damani-Yokota, Kamal Mohan Khanna
    Epigenetic and metabolic programming of innate immune cells shapes host defense and disease susceptibility.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Repeated vaccination with homologous influenza hemagglutinin broadens human antibody responses to unmatched flu viruses

    Yixiang Deng, Melbourne Tang ... Daniel Lingwood
    Classical antibody boosting effects during vaccination are accompanied by natural broadening mechanisms that help enable human antibodies to engage conserved sites of vulnerability on influenza virus.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Doubling dolutegravir dosage reduces the viral reservoir in ART-treated people with HIV

    Céline Fombellida-Lopez, Aurelija Valaitienė ... Gilles Darcis
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Glycolysis-dependent Sulfur Metabolism Orchestrates Morphological Plasticity and Virulence in Fungi

    Dhrumi Shah, Nikita Rewatkar ... Sriram Varahan
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    Yizhou Huang, Teresa LM Thurston
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    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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