Monkeypox: disease epidemiology, host immunity and clinical interventions

FM Lum, A Torres-Ruesta, MZ Tay, RTP Lin… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Monkeypox virus (MPXV), which causes disease in humans, has for many years been
restricted to the African continent, with only a handful of sporadic cases in other parts of the …

Mpox (formerly monkeypox): Pathogenesis, prevention and treatment

J Lu, H ** vaccines in the era of genomics
A Sette, R Rappuoli - Immunity, 2010 - cell.com
The sequence of microbial genomes made all potential antigens of each pathogen available
for vaccine development. This increased by orders of magnitude potential vaccine targets in …

The CD83 molecule–an important immune checkpoint

L Grosche, I Knippertz, C König, D Royzman… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The CD83 molecule has been identified to be expressed on numerous activated immune
cells, including B and T lymphocytes, monocytes, dendritic cells, microglia, and neutrophils …

Poxvirus tropism

G McFadden - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
Despite the success of the WHO-led smallpox eradication programme a quarter of a century
ago, there remains considerable fear that variola virus, or other related pathogenic …

Cross-presentation in viral immunity and self-tolerance

WR Heath, FR Carbone - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2001 - nature.com
T lymphocytes recognize peptide antigens presented by class I and class II molecules
encoded by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Classical antigen-presentation …

Smallpox vaccines: targets of protective immunity

B Moss - Immunological reviews, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The eradication of smallpox, one of the great triumphs of medicine, was accomplished
through the prophylactic administration of live vaccinia virus, a comparatively benign relative …

Toll-like receptor ligands directly promote activated CD4+ T cell survival

AE Gelman, J Zhang, Y Choi… - The Journal of Immunology, 2004 - journals.aai.org
Toll-like receptor (TLR) engagement by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) is
an important mechanism for optimal cellular immune responses. APC TLR engagement …