Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

However, the researchers also observed a phenomenon known as "blunting"—a reduction in infants’ antibody responses to their primary DTaP (diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis) series following ...

Blunting of vaccine responses has been observed in IgG-antibody concentrations to different pertussis vaccine antigens, specifically, pertussis toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin, pertactin, and ...

Utilizing a filamentous fungus in the gut microbiome may provide a new strategy for treating metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). Researchers have developed an innovative ...

The bacteria of the family Desulfobulbaceae are like living electric cables—they can conduct electrons over centimeter-scale distances along their filamentous structures. These electric currents ...

Recombinant pertussis booster vaccines provided sustained immunity against whooping cough in adolescents and young adults, showed a recent follow-up study of a clinical trial.

Do you remember the egg shortage of 2024? It wasn’t just a supply chain issue; it was a consequence of the H5N1 avian influenza -or bird flu- sweeping through poultry populations worldwide. While ...

Acquisition of a single virulence factor may bestow several functional attributes, as seen for the filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA) of B. pertussis, which encodes several functions [36]. The same is ...

PMid:19441223. Zhao Z, Xue Y, Wu B, Tang X, Hu R, Xu Y, Guo A, Chen H. Subcutaneous vaccination with attenuated Salmonella enterica serovar Choleraesuis C500 expressing recombinant filamentous ...

Maternal tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) immunization between 20 and 24 vs 30 and 33 weeks’ gestation is associated with less protection against pertussis among infants, according ...

A key secondary objective is to demonstrate non-interference of serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) responses against Tdap-containing antigens (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis toxin [PT], filamentous ...