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- Clade C RV144-like vaccine is immunogenic.
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- Cyto2018 Highlight: Immune Clock of Pregnancy
- Cyto2018 Highlight: Phenotyping DCs using 30 markers.
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- ECTS2018 – Where scientific research and clinical practice meet
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- First Animal Model of Rasmussen’s encephalitis
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- Have you heard of TPMs?
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- HIV Env immunogens elicit broad antibody responses in animal models
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- Immunological T and B cell Diversity of the Human Penis
- Immunopaedia goes to the Latin American Immunology Congress
- Immunoregulatory effects of Vitamin B5 during M.tb infection
- Improved T cell detection by Peptide-MHC dodecamers compared to tetramers
- Improved tetramer staining protocol detects functional T cells with low affinity TCRs
- Influenza-specific lung resident CD8+ T cells maintain diverse TCR profiles
- Influenza-specific lung TRM maintain diverse TCR profiles
- Initial Immune Responses to TB in the Human Lung
- Is kick-and-kill HIV cure strategy achievable?
- Latin American Immunology Congress, a cocktail of scientific breaking news.
- Local signals matters: implication for CD8 T cell function against Leishmania
- MAITs respond differently to ZIKV and DENV
- Measuring T cell proliferation using the “Warburg” effect.
- Metabolic reprogramming: Novel strategy to improve cancer immunotherapy
- MGIAs: potential role of trained immunity ?
- Natural infection improves breadth of vaccine induced memory
- New Hope for TB Vaccines
- News 2014
- A link between penicillin treatment in newborn infants and obesity
- A link between the gut microbiome and brain function?
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of long-term immune responses to vaccination in HIV
- Activation of HIV transcription in latently infected cells
- Agonistic induction of PPARy shown to reverse emphysema
- Airborne origins for Kawasaki disease
- Antibiotic treatment failure in four common infections- A primary care 1991-2012: longitudinal analysis
- ART in acute infection limits viral reservoirs
- Beta-catenin–regulated myeloid cells determine wound healing
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- Can environmental non-TB mycobacteria interferes with immunity to TB?
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- Characteristics of memory B Cells following HPV vaccination Immunity
- Characterization of pandemic influenza immune memory after vaccination or infection
- Clec12a regulates inflammation in response to cell death
- Club cells – identified in Influenza pathogenesis
- Control of Malaria-Induced Inflammation in Children is Dependent on Exposure.
- Dissecting tumor myeloid compartments to reveal APC critical for T Cell immunity
- EBV specific cytotoxic T Cell clones can transiently control EBV infection
- Efficacy of HPV vaccination in HIV positive adolescents and young adults
- Efficient 1-step radiolabeling of monoclonal antibodies for targeted radioimmunotherapy treatment of cancer
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- First-line boosted protease inhibitor regimen remains effective after virologic failure
- Fruit Bats and Flu
- Group B Strep selected and fixed through use of tetracycline
- Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors mark the ability of cytotoxic T cells to eliminate HIV
- HIV integration into the host DNA is not a random event.
- HIV sexual transmission risk among serodiscordant couples
- Immune-suppressant vaccine c blocks SIV infection in macaques
- Infectious Disease in Africa Symposium
- Inhibition of calcineurin abrogates whereas inhibition of mTOR promotes Regulatory T Cells
- Is there a link between Infertility and promotion of Sexually transmitted Infections?
- Kaposi Sarcoma treated with pegylated interferon
- Lopinavir/Ritonavir-based ART vs Efavirenz-based ART for the prevention of malaria in pregnancy
- Memory regulatory T cells reside in human skin
- Microbiota helps regulate behaviour in Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Mother–Infant HIV Transmission a review on antibody protection
- Mucosal and endotracheal delivery of RSV peptide prevents nasopulmonary infection
- Neuronal ferritin heavy chain and opiate abuse affect HIV-associated cognitive dysfunction
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- New experimental vaccine looks promising for Dengue Fever
- New model for treatment of RSV
- New TB drug combination to enter late-stage testing
- Normalizing glycosphingolipids restores CD4+ T cells function in lupus patients
- Prostate cancer incidence among HIV-positive and HIV-negative men
- Protein kinase D2 amplifies T cell receptor–stimulated signaling in naïve CD8+ T cells
- Reliability and clinical relevance of HIV drug-resistance testing at low viraemias
- Renal function of participants in tenofovir study- Thailand
- Results from a novel flu vaccine
- Risk of Melanoma in People with HIV/AIDS
- Sex difference noted in response to influenza vaccine
- Short-term changes in HIV viral load and CD4+ cell count
- South African treatment guidelines should use viral load, not CD4 count for greater success
- Streptococcus pneumoniae forms microlesions in myocardium, disrupting cardiac function
- T cell differentiation regulated by methyltransferase G9A during murine intestinal inflammation
- T cell repertoire following autologous stem cell transplantation for multiple sclerosis
- T. gondii ligand shown to promote inflammatory monocytes and provide resistance to bacterial infection
- The role of Cas1 and 2 proteins and immunity
- Thibela TB study – a trial of mass Isoniazid preventive therapy for tuberculosis control
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- Together muscularis macrophages and enteric neurons regulate gastric motility
- Tolerance or resistance to HIV infection? Which is it?
- Treating rhematoid arthritis with peptide-specific CD8+ regulatory T cells
- Tumor-associated neutrophils stimulate T cell responses in early-stage human lung cancer
- Understanding molecular evolution of HIV and ART
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- UTI treatment requires a coordinated phagocytic response
- Vaccine-induced myeloid cell population dampens protective immunity
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- Viral reservoirs limited by ART
- News 2015
- A new marker denotes exhausted CD8+ T cells during chronic viral infections
- A new reservoir of HIV found within peripheral Vδ2 T cells
- A new theory to explain autoimmunity: The Altered Glycan Theory of Autoimmunity
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- Diversity of lipid envelopes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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- Extracellular vesicles as a vaccine candidate against Staphylococcus aureus infections
- Genetically modified commensal bacteria used as a possible HIV vaccine adjunct
- Herd Immunity: immunology meets public health
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- Is Adipose Tissue a viral reservoir?
- Levels of PD-L1 Expression on target cells helps to establish viral latency
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- New antibodies that target sugars on the HIV-1 envelope
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- Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV transmission in African children in the first year of life
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- Antigen Delivery to the Draining Lymph Nodes is a Key to Intradermal Vaccination Efficacy
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- Ebola vaccine confirmed to be highly effective
- Financing the Response to HIV: Show Us the Money
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- HIV R4P Highlights: New antibody lineages against HIV high mannose-patch
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- Immune Ontogeny and the microbiome
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- Regulatory T-Cells
- Complement activation
- Cross-presentation and Cross-priming of Tumor Antigens
- The Role of the Adaptive Immune System in Tumor Immunity: Recognition of TAAs on Tumor Cells by T Cells and Other Cells
- Cytokines Determine Subsets of CD4+ and CD8+ T-cells
- Dendritic cell/NK cells
- ELISA tests
- Epstein Barr virus (EBV)
- Extra Pulmonary TB
- Genital mucosa
- Granuloma formation
- Granuloma formation
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS)
- HIV Lymphoid Tissue
- Splenic TB
- Homologous Cytokines
- Karposi Sarcoma (HHV-8)
- Skin and endothelial proliferation
- Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
- Hypersensitivity Reactions
- IgA & Complement
- Immune evasion
- Immune complex formation
- Immune Evasion
- Immune tolerance
- Immune evasion/deviation
- Innate Immune System
- Interference in T cell immunity
- Introduction to innate and adaptive immunity in the context of cancer
- Kawasaki Desease
- Macrophage activation
- Th1 Immunity
- Macrophage and CD4 Dysfunction
- Malaria
- Systemic effects of Plasmodium falciparum
- MHC restriction/inflammation
- Multicentric Castleman’s Disease (MCD)
- Multiple Myeloma
- Neonatal Immunity
- Non TB mycobacteria
- Parvovirus B19
- Passive immunity
- Passively Acquired Autoimmunity
- Peyer’s patches and M cells
- Phagocytosis
- Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis (PSGN)
- Pro-inflammatory cytokines
- Psoriasis
- Ricketsia
- Secondary Lymphoid Tissue
- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)
- Streptococcal Pneumoniae Meningitis
- Subacute Measles Encephalitis
- Sympathetic Ophthalmia
- T and B cell immunity
- TB-associated Haemophagocytic Syndrome
- Th17 CD4+ T cells
- Th17/Treg balance
- Thrombotic Thrombocytopaenic Purpura (TTP)
- Tolerance and inflammation
- Vaccine associated paralytic polio
- Central & Peripheral Tolerance
- Immune-Privileged Sites
- Immune Regulation
- Self/Non-Self Discrimination
- Antigen-Presentation & HLA Restriction
- Antigen Cross-Presentation
- B-cell & T-cell Activation
- Chemokines & Homing
- Leukocyte Extravasation
- Haemostasis
- Innate System Components
- Primary Lymphoid Organs
- Adaptive System Components
- Innate vs. Adaptive Timing
- Innate vs. Adaptive Characteristics
- Cytokines
- Non-Classical Immune Cells
- Major infectious diseases
- Abscesses
- Chronic Inflammation
- Chronic and Damaging Inflammation
- Autoimmunity and Molecular Mimicry
- Immune Escape and Subversion
- Hypersensitivity Reactions
- Cancer Immunology
- Primary & Secondary Immunodeficiencies
- Immune Reconstitution & IRIS
- Pregnancy
- Immune Maturation
- Passive Immunisation
- Primary Lymphoid Organs
- Lymphatic System & Draining Lymph Nodes
- Circulation
- Secondary Lymphoid Organs
- Typical Response to Bacteria (eg. TB)
- Typical Response to Parasites
- Diffuse Immune Compartments
- Hematopoiesis
- Leukocyte Morphology
- Leukocyte Maturation
- V(D)J Recombination
