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Definition of reactive arthritis may require expansion A Sunday State-of-the-Art Lecture will cover the latest findings related to reactive arthritis, including the biological mechanisms that link microbial factors to arthritis…

Does arthritis affect the eyes? What you need to know While arthritis is known to cause inflammation in the joints, it can also cause problems in the eyes. Learn about…

The Immunoregulatory Roles of Antibody Glycosylation Beyond their role in neutralization, antibodies mediate functions such as phagocytosis, cytotoxicity, and maintenance of immune homeostasis. Two modifications to the constant domain control…

Improving Vaccine and Immunotherapy Design Using Biomaterials Polymers, lipids, scaffolds, microneedles, and other biomaterials are rapidly emerging as technologies to improve the efficacy of vaccines against infectious… cell.com Aluminium adjuvants…

Lymphatic Vessels Balance Viral Dissemination and Immune Activation following Cutaneous Viral Infection Loo et al. challenge the prevailing view that… cell.com ILC1 Confer Early Host Protection at Initial Sites of…

Lipopolysaccharide Detection across the Kingdoms of Life Studies in recent years have uncovered a diverse set of eukaryotic receptors that recognize lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the major outer-membrane component of Gram-negative bacteria.…

Procalcitonin en.wikipedia.org  Procalcitonin – Assisted Antibiotic Strategy in Sepsis Sepsis is one of the biggest challenges in critical care nowadays. Defining sepsis is a difficult task on its own and…

Predictors of revision, prosthetic joint infection and mortality following total hip or total knee arthroplasty in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a nationwide cohort study using Danish healthcare registers ard.bmj.com Decreasing…

Rules for Drug Cessation with Infection Everyone gets their education about drug-related infection risk from television ads. Rheumatologists… rheumnow.com Methotrexate holiday linked to better flu vaccine immunogenicity Not clear if…

Risk factors of Pneumocystis jeroveci pneumonia in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus link.springer.com "Interestingly, in all cases, a marked reduction in lymphocyte count (710 ± 377 cells/mm3) is observed before the onset of…