Mycobacterial diseases, including tuberculosis (TB), leprosy, and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections, continue to impose a substantial global ...

Young children who attend nursery get sick more often than those who don't, but they will go on to have fewer illnesses ...

As the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 took hold across the globe in late 2021, it became readily apparent that the pandemic had entered a new phase. Having experienced a previous COVID-19 infection or ...

An interdisciplinary team of authors from Canada, Austria, the U.S. and Germany has outlined how immuno-epidemiology and ...

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.

For at least 10 months after a COVID-19 infection, your immune system can provide good protection against symptomatic illness the next time around, a new study found, and the risk of severe illness is ...

When we’re exposed to a pathogen such as a virus, our immune system identifies it as a foreign invader and mounts an attack. This ultimately results in the formation of antibodies which can neutralise ...

In a recent study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers found that vaccinated people were at an increased risk of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...