The relationship between disease and good health has received relatively little attention in
mental health. Resilience can be viewed as a defence mechanism, which enables people to …

Evolutionary modelling studies indicate less than a century has passed since the most
recent common ancestor of the HIV-1 pandemic strains and, in that time frame, an …

Genetic resistance to infectious diseases is likely to involve a complex array of immune-
response and other genes with variants that impose subtle but significant consequences on …

After the resolution of an immune response, antigen-specific memory T cells persist at many
sites in the body. The antigen-specific memory T-cell pool includes memory T cells that …

Cell-mediated immunity (CMI) is key to defense against intracellular pathogens such as
Chlamydia trachomatis and viruses that infect the lower female genital tract, but little is …

HIV-1 and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), as well as their hosts, face perils at mucosal
front lines in early infection. At these sites,'resting'CD4+ memory T cells fuel infection …

'Awarded the Annual Award for Distinguished Scholarly Book in Applied Communication, by
the National Communication Association, USA?This gripping narrative not only documents …

The importance of CD8+ T-cell responses in the control of human immunodeficiency virus
type 1 (HIV-1) infection has been demonstrated, yet few studies have been able to correlate …

Although the field of immunology developed in part from the early vaccine studies of Edward
Jenner, Louis Pasteur and others, vaccine development had largely become the province of …

The ultimate success of strategies to prevent sexual transmission of HIV depends, in part, on
a better understanding of the virological and immunological mechanisms that define sexual …