dengue infection

Although scientists debate the ethics of deliberately infecting volunteers with SARS-CoV-2, plenty of consenting participants have been exposed to all sorts of pathogens in prior trials.

Through groundbreaking studies on dengue and efforts to build scientific infrastructure in Latin America, the University of California, Berkeley, professor has bridged research with its benefits to society.

Aedes aegypti infected with Wolbachia—which inhibit transmission of the dengue virus from insect to human—were deployed in Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Australia.

Children were 38 percent less likely to show signs of Zika infection if they had previously had dengue.

The drugs’ disruption of the microbiome makes a subsequent flavivirus infection more severe.

The drug may worsen future infections for people who haven't already been exposed to the virus.

A memory B cell response to Zika virus in dengue-infected patients produced antibodies that were poorly neutralizing in vitro and instead enhanced infection.

Researchers report evidence of antibody-dependent enhancement in a Zika-infected, immunocompromised mouse model.

Researchers examine the blood of people infected with dengue virus, finding a few Zika-neutralizing antibodies among mostly enhancing ones.

Previous flavivirus infection could help explain the severity of symptoms in some people infected during the ongoing Zika outbreak, researchers report.

March 2016's selection of notable quotes

Researchers identify a novel virus in blood samples taken in the 1970s.

Researchers characterize a protein that could be key to the virus’s virulence—and to developing a vaccine against the mosquito-borne disease.

Immune cells specific for the virus are present in the skin of infected patients, a study shows.

Researchers uncover a class of antibodies that may confer immunity to different serotypes of the dengue virus.

The method to the dengue virus's maddening infectiousness.

Fearless cockroach hunter Coby Schal investigates how insects communicate via chemical cues, then subverts those signals for pest control.

The global spread of dengue virus has immunologists and public-health experts debating the best way to curb infection.

Dengue virus has sophisticated mechanisms for entering a cell, for replicating its RNA genome, and for transcribing proteins.