Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    A modular platform to display multiple hemagglutinin subtypes on a single immunogen

    Dana Thornlow Lamson, Faez Amokrane Nait Mohamed ... Aaron G. Schmidt
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    Birnaviral Hijacking of Endosomal Membranes

    Flavia A. Zanetti, Ignacio Fernández ... Laura R. Delgui
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    Immunogenicity and safety of a live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate based on multiple attenuation mechanisms

    Mie Suzuki-Okutani, Shinya Okamura ... Hirotaka Ebina
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    Signatures of transposon-mediated genome inflation, host specialization, and photoentrainment in Entomophthora muscae and allied entomophthoralean fungi

    Jason E. Stajich, Brian Lovett ... Carolyn Elya
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    Altered transcriptomic immune responses of maintenance hemodialysis patients to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine

    Yi-Shin Chang, Kai Huang ... David L Perkins
    Differing time courses of immune responses to the BTN162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccination in maintenance hemodialysis subjects are comparable to healthy controls and identify transcriptomic and clinical predictors of anti-spike IgG titers in hemodialysis subjects.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Molecular mechanism of complement inhibition by the trypanosome receptor ISG65

    Alexander D Cook, Mark Carrington, Matthew K Higgins
    A structure derived from cryogenic electron microscopy shows how ISG65, an African trypanosome receptor that aids virulence, binds C3b and suggests mechanisms through which ISG65 might aid complement resistance.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Merging Multi-OMICs with Proteome Integral Solubility Alteration Unveils Antibiotic Mode of Action

    Ritwik Maity, Xuepei Zhang ... Javier Sancho
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Released Bacterial ATP Shapes Local and Systemic Inflammation during Abdominal Sepsis

    Daniel Spari, Annina Schmid ... Guido Beldi
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    Staphylococcus aureus FtsZ and PBP4 bind to the conformationally dynamic N-terminal domain of GpsB

    Michael D Sacco, Lauren R Hammond ... Yu Chen
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    A modified BCG with depletion of enzymes associated with peptidoglycan amidation induces enhanced protection against tuberculosis in mice

    Moagi Tube Shaku, Peter K Um ... Bavesh D Kana
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  1. Wendy S Garrett
    Wendy S Garrett
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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    University of Michigan, United States
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    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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