COVID-19 among infants: key clinical features and remaining controversies

N Cimolai - Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Infants aged< 1 year represent a seemingly more susceptible pediatric subset for infections.
Despite this, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection has not been proven as more …

Sugar Highs: Recent Notable Breakthroughs in Glycobiology

J Hu, DT Huynh, M Boyce - Biochemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Glycosylation is biochemically complex and functionally critical to a wide range of processes
and disease states, making it a vibrant area of contemporary research. Here, we highlight a …

Neutralizing and binding antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 with hybrid immunity in pregnancy

L Li, Y Matsui, MK Prahl, AG Cassidy, Y Golan… - npj Vaccines, 2024 - nature.com
Hybrid immunity against SARS-CoV-2 has not been well studied in pregnancy. We
conducted a comprehensive analysis of neutralizing antibodies (nAb) and binding …

Analysis of the transplacental transmission of SARS CoV-2 virus and antibody transfer according to the gestational age at maternal infection

L Lucot-Royer, C Nallet, M Vouga, M Puyraveau… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
To quantify transplacental transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus and antibody transfer in
pregnant women and their newborns according to the gestational age at maternal infection …

Testing the Antigenic Potential of Transmembrane Proteins To Develop a Thermostable Tuberculosis MOF-Liposomal Vaccine

S Kumari, J Martinez-Garcia, RN Ehrman… - ACS Infectious …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Tuberculosis is one of the deadliest infectious diseases and continues to be a major health
risk in many parts of the world. Even today, the century-old Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) …

Unpredicted protective function of Fc-mediated inhibitory antibodies for HIV and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines

LY Lin, P Gantner, S Li, B Su… - The Journal of Infectious …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Developing effective vaccines is necessary in combating new virus pandemics. For human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS …

SARS-CoV-2 anti-RBD and anti-N protein responses are differentially regulated between mother-child pairs: insight from a national study cohort at the Faroe Islands

I Jarlhelt, CB Hansen, L Pérez-Alós, P Weihe… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background Knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 antibody dynamics in neonates and direct
comparisons with maternal antibody responses are not well established. This study aimed to …

Patterns and functional consequences of antibody speciation in maternal-fetal transfer of coronavirus-specific humoral immunity

AP Hederman, HM Brookes, H Natarajan, L Heyndrickx… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Maternal antibodies serve as a temporary form of inherited immunity, providing humoral
protection to vulnerable neonates. Whereas IgG is actively transferred up a concentration …

Antigen specificity shapes antibody functions in tuberculosis

JR Miles, P Lu, S Bai, GP Aguillón-Durán… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one infectious disease cause of death worldwide due to an
incomplete understanding of immunity. Emerging data highlight antibody functions mediated …