30th November 2018 Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a rare, chronic, food-driven inflammatory disease of the esophagus. Clinical presentation varies through different ages and may include feeding...
November 2018
IDA Highlights: Malaria
28th November 2018 Antibodies induced by natural infection confer protective immunity in individuals from Malaria endemic regions. Efforts to induce potent vaccine...
IDA Highlight: TB is a complex disease
22nd November 2018 90% of people exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) clear infection or contain the infection (termed as latency), however there is a percentage that progress to active disease.
IDA Highlights: Immune responses at mucosal sites
20th November 2018 The mucosal sites are usually the first entry points of HIV, hence this site is one of the key target areas for anti-HIV immune interventions. To emphasize this point Thomas J Hope ...
We are at the IDA this Week
The Infectious Diseases in Africa Symposium is taking place from the 12-16th November 2018. Immunopaedia is assiting with providing immunology content and training. We are also taking interesting interviews of the faculty.
Intestinal helminth co-infection promotes control against lung migrating parasites
9th November 2018 Filbey et al., aimed to determine how chronic Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Hp) gastrointestinal infection can influence systemic and localised immunity against other helminth infections.
Characterisation of porcine conventional DC subsets
6th November 2018 DEC205 plays a very important role in antigen presentation and cross-presentation by cDCs. This has led to the study of antigen-targeting of DEC205 for vaccination.
Where do uterine NK cells during pregnancy come from?
3rd November 2018 Sojka et al., used a novel NK cell reporter mouse model to determine which cell population cNK or trNK cells is responsible for proliferation of uNK cells during pregnancy. Using this ...