The observation that an additional vaccine dose provides protection against Omicron variant reinfection in previously vaccinated and infected individuals will help guide future COVID-19 vaccination policies in China and globally.
Vivian C Salgueiro-Toledo, Jorge Bertol ... Rafael Prados-Rosales
Genetic, ultrastructural, multi-omics, and biochemical tools reveal VirR as a central scaffold in Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope remodelling, critical for extracellular vesicle production.
Manuela C Aguirre-Botero, Olga Pacios ... Rogerio Amino
A late-neutralizing monoclonal antibody targeting the major surface antigen of plasmodial sporozoites impairs the fitness of intracellular parasites, offering mechanistic insights to guide the development of potent anti-malaria antibodies.
Julia A Hotinger, Ian W Campbell ... Matthew K Waldor
Microbial lineage tracing during murine systemic infection with Salmonella uncovered the bottlenecks that restrict colonization and the hidden routes of interorgan dissemination that drive heterogeneity in infection outcomes.
Interleukin-1 activates RhoA/ROCK signaling, which drives the enrichment of actin bundles at the cell-cell junctions, preventing SARS-CoV-2 spreading via syncytia formation.
Louise Tzung-Harn Hsieh, Belinda S Hall ... Rachel E Simmonds
The secreted toxin mycolactone has severe effects on the cells lining blood vessels that will play a critical role in the development of swelling in Buruli ulcer disease.
FMT alleviated the intestinal barrier damage caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection in antibiotic-induced microbiome-disordered model through increasing the relative abundance of A. muciniphila in the intestine.