Researchers have found that the body's process of removing old and damaged cell parts, is also an essential part of tackling infections that take hold within our cells, like TB. If this natural ...

A Feb. 16 study in the Lancet medical journal found that, for people who had COVID-19 immunity resulting from infection, protection from severe disease and death remained high for at least 10 months.

Bacteria can play established roles both as pathogens during infection but also as part of the host microbiota. The immune response to bacterial infection is a critical defence strategy protecting the ...

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In a recent preprint* study posted to the medRxiv server, a team of researchers evaluated the impact of hybrid immunity (combining vaccination and recovery from infection) on severe acute respiratory ...

Antimicrobial resistance—when bacteria and fungi defend themselves against the drugs designed to kill them—is an urgent threat to global public health, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Vaccination and infection both provide protective immunity to COVID-19, particularly against severe disease. But gaining immunity through infection is far riskier than vaccination. Posts citing a new ...

A new University of Manchester and Edinburgh study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity has found that ...

Get it early, develop immunity, get back to work: some wonder As COVID-19 numbers climb precipitously, health care workers, first responders and the countless individuals working in "essential ...

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