Immunology of Infectious Disease News Volume 12.14 | Apr 17 2024

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    2024-04-17 | IIDN 12.14


    Immunology of Infectious Disease News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 12.14 – 17 April, 2024
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    Age-Specific Nasal Epithelial Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Infection

    The authors investigated differences in the cellular landscape and function of pediatric, adult, and older adult ex vivo cultured nasal epithelial cells in response to infection with SARS-CoV-2.
    [Nature Microbiology]

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    Perinatal Outcomes after Admission with COVID-19 in Pregnancy: A UK National Cohort Study

    Researchers showed that in this large national cohort comprising two years’ active surveillance over four SARS-CoV-2 variant periods and with near complete follow-up of pregnancy outcomes for 16,627 included women, severe perinatal outcomes were more common in women with moderate to severe COVID-19, during the delta dominant period and among unvaccinated women.
    [Nature Communications]

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    SARS-CoV-2 Infection Activates Inflammatory Macrophages in Vascular Immune Organoids

    The authors established vascular immune organoids from human pluripotent stem cells and examined the effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    AS03 Adjuvant Enhances the Magnitude, Persistence, and Clonal Breadth of Memory B Cell Responses to a Plant-Based COVID-19 Vaccine in Humans

    Investigators longitudinally analyzed immune responses in healthy adults after two-dose vaccination with either a virus-like particle COVID-19 vaccine (CoVLP), CoVLP adjuvanted with AS03, or a messenger RNA vaccination.
    [Science Immunology]

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    Inflammation and Cytomegalovirus Viremia during Pregnancy Drive Sex-Differentiated Differences in Mortality and Immune Development in HIV-Exposed Infants

    In a secondary analysis of the SHINE trial in rural Zimbabwe researchers explored biological pathways underlying infant mortality, and maternal factors shaping immune development in HIV-exposed uninfected infants.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Enteric Coronavirus nsp2 Is a Virulence Determinant that Recruits NBR1 for Autophagic Targeting of TBK1 to Diminish the Innate Immune Response

    Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus mutants containing a complete nsp2 deletion was entirely avirulent in vivo, with significantly increased productions of interferon beta and IFN-stimulated genes in various intestinal tissues of challenged newborn piglets.
    [Autophagy]

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    Secreted Phospholipase PLA2G2E Contributes to Regulation of T Cell Immune Response against Influenza Virus Infection

    Investigators demonstrated that Pla2g2e-/- mice had significantly lower survival rates and higher viral loads in lungs compared to wild-type mice following influenza virus infection.
    [Journal Of Virology]

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    Virological, Innate, and Adaptive Immune Profiles Shaped by Variation in Route and Age of Host in Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection

    To assess the role of route and age at infection in modeling human cytomegalovirus in mice, scientists infected prepubescent and young sexually mature C57BL/6 mice intranasally, a likely physiological route in humans) and intraperitoneally, which was frequently used experimental route, and was possibly akin to transplant-mediated infection.
    [Applied And Environmental Microbiology]

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    Umbilical Cord Blood Culture for Early Onset Sepsis in Preterm Infants

    Retrospective analysis at a tertiary care center in Canada of preterm infants less than or equal to 34 0/7 weeks’ gestation with umbilical cord blood culture (UCBC) taken at birth. Of 505 admitted infants, 195 had UCBC.
    [Pediatric Research]

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    Myeloid C-Type Lectin Receptors in Innate Immune Recognition

    Myeloid C-type lectin receptors exhibited a remarkable ability to recognize an extensive array of ligands, from carbohydrates and beyond, and encompass pattern-associated molecular patterns, damage-associated molecular patterns, and markers of altered self.
    [Immunity]

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    MDSC Expansion during HIV Infection: Regulators, ART and Immune Reconstitution

    Understanding the factors and mechanisms of MDSC expansion during HIV infection is central to understanding the pathophysiology of HIV infection.
    [Genes And Immunity]

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    Lessons in Persistence: New Long COVID Trials AIm To Clear LIngering Virus

    Long COVID has been a vexing foe, but these clinical trials mark a new chapter. They’re the first targeting the syndrome’s underlying biology, including the one Hayden joined, focus on a key question: Is lingering SARS-CoV-2 virus behind patients’ symptoms?
    [Science Insider]

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    Canada Likely to Miss WHO’s Hepatitis C Elimination Target, Research Shows

    Canada will not reach the original World Health Organization’s (WHO) target of eliminating the Hepatitis C virus by 2030 and lags in comparison to other developed countries, a new study led by researchers at the University of Waterloo has found.
    [University of Waterloo]

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