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Eva Sabrina Gollwitzer, Nicola Harris, Benjamin John Marsland

BACKGROUND: Helminth parasites have been reported to have beneficial immunomodulatory effects in patients with allergic and autoimmune conditions and detrimental consequences in patients with tuberculosis and some viral infections. Their role in coinfectio ...

Elsevier2017

Broad-spectrum Antiviral Nanoparticles

Marie Müller

Viral infections affect millions of people every year, yet broad-spectrum virucidal therapies are not available. Antiviral substances in current use act on specific viral mechanisms against only a small number of viruses. Virustatic materials interfere wit ...

EPFL2017

Oxidation-sensitive polymersomes as vaccine nanocarriers enhance humoral responses against Lassa virus envelope glycoprotein

Marcela Rincón-Restrepo, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Sachiko Hirosue, Clara Galan Navarro, Stefan Kunz

Lassa virus (LASV) causes severe hemorrhagic fever with high mortality, yet no vaccine currently exists. Antibodies targeting viral attachment proteins are crucial for protection against many viral infections. However, the envelope glycoprotein (GP) 1 of L ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2017

Host and pathogen genomics of severe pediatric infections

Samira Asgari

Infectious diseases are among the leading causes of human morbidity and mortality, with the greatest burden felt in the pediatric population. For any infectious disease, only a fraction of the exposed individuals develop clinical symptoms. These inter-indi ...

EPFL2016

Nucleoside Analogues: Synthesis from Strained Rings

Jérôme Waser, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Sophie Lucie Racine

Nucleoside analogues are widely employed as bioactive compounds against cancer and viral infections. Consequently, it is important to develop efficient synthetic methods to access them with high efficiency and structural diversity. Herein, we present a ful ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

IMMUNOLOGY Chronic effects of acute infections

Nicola Harris

Acute infection of mice with an intestinal pathogen leads to long-lasting inflammation that is maintained by intestinal microorganisms. This observation reveals a path by which infection history can affect long-term immune function. ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Limits and patterns of cytomegalovirus genomic diversity in humans

Jeffrey David Jensen, Cornelia Pokalyuk

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) exhibits surprisingly high genomic diversity during natural infection although little is known about the limits or patterns of HCMV diversity among humans. To address this deficiency, we analyzed genomic diversity among congeni ...

Natl Acad Sciences2015

Antibiotic use and abuse: A threat to mitochondria and chloroplasts with impact on research, health, and environment

Johan Auwerx, Richardus Houtkooper, Dongryeol Ryu, Xu Wang

Recently, several studies have demonstrated that tetracyclines, the antibiotics most intensively used in livestock and that are also widely applied in biomedical research, interrupt mitochondrial proteostasis and physiology in animals ranging from round wo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Microbiological characterization of 3193 French dwellings of Elfe cohort children

François Gillet

Although exposure to indoor microorganisms in early life has already been associated with respiratory illness or allergy protection, only a few studies have performed standardized samplings and specific microbial analysis. Moreover, most do not target the ...

Elsevier2015

How should social mixing be measured: comparing web-based survey and sensor-based methods

Marcel Salathé

Contact surveys and diaries have conventionally been used to measure contact networks in different settings for elucidating infectious disease transmission dynamics of respiratory infections. More recently, technological advances have permitted the use of ...

BioMed Central2014

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