Lung-resident memory B cells protect against bacterial pneumonia

KA Barker, NS Etesami, AT Shenoy, EI Arafa… - The Journal of clinical …, 2021 - jci.org
Lung-resident memory B cells (BRM cells) are elicited after influenza infections of mice, but
connections to other pathogens and hosts—as well as their functional significance—have …

Expanding the role of bacterial vaccines into life-course vaccination strategies and prevention of antimicrobial-resistant infections

JT Poolman - npj Vaccines, 2020 - nature.com
A crisis in bacterial infections looms as ageing populations, increasing rates of bacteraemia
and healthcare-associated infections converge with increasing antimicrobial resistance and …

Managing the coagulopathy of postpartum hemorrhage: an evolving role for viscoelastic hemostatic assays

SF Bell, L de Lloyd, N Preston, PW Collins - Journal of Thrombosis and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is usually caused by obstetrical complications but may be
exacerbated by hemostatic impairment. Standard laboratory tests of coagulation often take …

Waning of antibody levels induced by a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, using a 3+ 0 schedule, within the first year of life among children younger than 5 …

TD Swarthout, MYR Henrion, D Thindwa… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) induce serotype-specific
IgG antibodies, effectively reducing vaccine-serotype carriage and invasive pneumococcal …

Pneumonia recovery reprograms the alveolar macrophage pool

A Guillon, EI Arafa, KA Barker, AC Belkina, I Martin… - JCI …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Community-acquired pneumonia is a widespread disease with significant morbidity and
mortality. Alveolar macrophages are tissue-resident lung cells that play a crucial role in …

A novel single cell RNA-seq analysis of non-myeloid circulating cells in late sepsis

DB Darden, X Dong, MA Brusko, L Kelly… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background With the successful implementation of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign
guidelines, post-sepsis in-hospital mortality to sepsis continues to decrease. Those who …

B cells in the pneumococcus-infected lung are heterogeneous and require CD4+ T cell help including CD40L to become resident memory B cells

NS Etesami, KA Barker, AT Shenoy… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Recovery from respiratory pneumococcal infections generates lung-localized protection
against heterotypic bacteria, mediated by resident memory lymphocytes. Optimal protection …

Polysaccharide and conjugate vaccines to Streptococcus pneumoniae generate distinct humoral responses

LRL Davies, D Cizmeci, W Guo… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major cause of community-acquired pneumonia,
bacteremia, and meningitis in older adults worldwide. Two pneumococcal vaccines …

Immunologic dysfunction contributes to the otitis prone condition

ME Pichichero - Journal of Infection, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Acute Otitis Media (AOM) is a multifactorial disease occurring mostly in young
children who are immunologically naïve to AOM pathogens. This review focuses on work …

Multi-valent protein hybrid pneumococcal vaccines: a strategy for the next generation of vaccines

NR Scott, B Mann, EI Tuomanen, CJ Orihuela - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Streptococcus pneumoniae (Spn) is a bacterial pathogen known to colonize the upper
respiratory tract and cause serious opportunistic diseases such as pneumonia, bacteremia …