Immunology of Infectious Disease News Volume 10.45 | Nov 23 2022

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    2022-11-22 | IIDN 10.45


    Immunology of Infectious Disease News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 10.45 – 23 November, 2022
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    GPR183 Antagonism Reduces Macrophage Infiltration in Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 Infection

    Researchers identified the mechanisms that drive immune cell recruitment in the lung during viral respiratory infections and identified novel drug targets to reduce inflammation and disease severity.
    [European Respiratory Journal]

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    XNAzymes Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Inhibit Viral Infection

    Investigators showed that site-specific RNA endonuclease XNAzymes – artificial catalysts composed of single-stranded synthetic xeno-nucleic acid oligonucleotides – may be designed, synthesized and screened within days, enabling the discovery of a range of enzymes targeting SARS-CoV-2 ORF1ab, ORF7b, spike- and nucleocapsid-encoding RNA.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Vaccine Effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection during Periods of Alpha, Delta, or Omicron Dominance: A Danish Nationwide Study

    Using Danish nationwide registries, the authors obtained information on SARS-CoV-2 infections, COVID-19 vaccination, age, sex, comorbidity, staying at hospital, and country of origin.
    [PLoS Medicine]

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    Association of Upper Respiratory Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonization with SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Adults

    Researchers collected saliva specimens from working-age adults receiving SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing at outpatient clinics and via mobile community-outreach testing between.
    [Clinical infectious Diseases]

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    Acute Inflammatory Diseases of the Central Nervous System After SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination

    Scientists described the features of patients presenting with new acute central nervous system demyelination resembling neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders or myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease within eight weeks of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
    [Neurology-Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation]

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    Exploratory Data on the Clinical Efficacy of Monoclonal Antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant of Concern

    The MANTICO trial was a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial comparing the clinical efficacy of early treatments with bamlanivimab/etesevimab, casirivimab/imdevimab, and sotrovimab in outpatients aged 50 or older with mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection.
    [eLife]

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    Selective Retention of Virus-Specific Tissue-Resident T Cells in Healed Skin after Recovery from Herpes Zoster

    The authors showed virus-specific T cells were retained over one year in serial samples of rash site and contralateral unaffected skin of individuals recovered from zoster.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Inflammatory Platelet Production Stimulated by Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase Mimicking Viral Infection

    Scientists reported that tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase mimiced inflammatory stress inducing a unique megakaryocyte population with stem cell and myeloid markers through a mechanism dependent on Toll-like receptor activation and type I interferon signaling.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    Elevation of Cell-Associated HIV-1 Transcripts in CSF CD4+ T Cells, despite Effective Antiretroviral Therapy, Is Linked to Brain Injury

    Researchers investigated cell-associated-HIV-1 RNA transcripts in cells in cerebrospinal fluid and blood, using the highly sensitive Double-R assay, together with proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of major brain metabolites, in 16 people living with HIV-1 infection.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    Agr2-Associated ER Stress Promotes Adherent-Invasive E. coli Dysbiosis and Triggers CD103+ Dendritic Cell IL-23-Dependent Ileocolitis

    Investigators showed that ileal expression of AGR2 correlated with mucosal Enterobactericeae abundance in human inflammatory bowel disease and that Agr2 deletion leads to ER-stress-dependent expansion of mucosal-associated adherent-invasive Escherichia coli.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Distinct Inflammation-Related Proteins Associated with T Cell Immune Recovery during Chronic HIV-1 Infection

    Researchers used Olink proteomics to comprehensively analyze the aberrant inflammation-related proteins in chronic HIV-1-infected individuals, including in 24 treatment-naïve individuals, 33 immunological responders, and 38 immunological non-responders.
    [Emerging Microbes & Infections]

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    Dynamic Immune Markers Predict HIV Acquisition and Augment Associations with Sociobehavioral Factors for HIV Exposure

    The authors created a nested case-control study within the Sabes study in Peru, and assessed a panel of plasma immune biomarkers at enrollment and longitudinally, including within a month of diagnosis of primary HIV or matched timepoint in controls.
    [iScience]

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    Pyroptosis Associated with Immune Reconstruction Failure in HIV-1- Infected Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy: A Cross-Sectional Study

    Investigators explored the association between the expression of pyroptosis in peripheral blood and immune function reconstruction in HIV-1- infected patients.
    [BMC Infectious Diseases]

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    Bacterial Chemotaxis in Human Diseases

    Chemotaxis drives pathogen colonization to sites of inflammation and injury and mediates fitness advantages through accessing host-derived nutrients from damaged tissue.
    [Trends in Microbiology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    WHO, Uganda Plan to Test Three Candidate Ebola Vaccines in Outbreak

    The World Health Organization and the government of Uganda plan to test three candidate Ebola vaccines in a clinical trial during the ongoing outbreak in the East African nation, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Wednesday.
    [STAT News]

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    Takeda’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for Dengue Vaccine Candidate (TAK-003) Granted Priority Review by US Food and Drug Administration

    Takeda announced that the FDA has accepted and granted priority review of the Biologics License Application for TAK-003, the company’s investigational dengue vaccine candidate.
    [Takeda]

    Press Release

    Why Do Bat Viruses Keep Infecting People?

    Hendra virus, like Nipah, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 is a bat virus that has spilled over into people. These viruses often reach humans through an intermediate animal, sometimes with deadly consequences.
    [Nature News]

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