Salmonella can wreak havoc in (or kill) people infected with HIV -- and not for the reason scientists have long assumed. Salmonella typhimuriumImage: Wikimedia commons, V. BrinkmannMax Planck ...

It has been shown that, in the case of HIV, the infectious synapse leads to an efficient transfer of the pathogen to T cells 120. The direct interaction of carbohydrate-binding agents (CBAs ...

previous epidemic caused -- like the AIDS epidemic -- by a pathogen that also targeted white blood cells. Reading a chronological history, biologists traced the HIV-resistance gene mutation back ...

An effective HIV-1 vaccine must therefore elicit antibodies that can neutralize many variants of the virus. While broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been isolated from HIV-1 infected ...

We are not there yet, but the way forward is now much clearer.’ The antibodies target an area on the HIV pathogen’s outer layer called the membrane proximal external region (MPER), helping to ...

A group of leading African researchers trying to develop effective vaccines against HIV is trying to figure out how to ...

Have the Infection Control Officer or the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs talk to the source patient. They will ask the patient to have his/her blood drawn for testing of HBV (Hepatitis B Virus), ...

The naked-DNA vaccine is complete. Select another pathogen. Congratulations. You have just produced a naked-DNA HIV vaccine. Trials for a genetic vaccine that may protect against AIDS began in 1995.

A groundbreaking project to study potential HIV vaccines in several African countries has been derailed by an abrupt cut in ...

In a study of nearly 600 people, published in Science on 20 February 1, the tool identified whether participants were healthy or had COVID-19, type 1 diabetes, HIV or the autoimmune disease lupus ...