Background: The emergence of viral resistance is one of the greatest challenges in the
treatment of HIV infection. Maraviroc is the first member of a new class of antiretroviral …

Neurocysticercosis due to parenchymal cysts carries a good prognosis regardless of therapy.
Extraparenchymal neurocysticercosis (including ventricular, spinal, and subarachnoid …

Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected
millions of people globally. Virus infection requires the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the …

The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has mobilized efforts to develop
vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics, including convalescent-phase plasma therapy, …

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibroproliferative disease with irreversible lung function
loss and poor survival. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) are associated with poor …

Chemokine receptor CXCR4 (also known as LESTR and fusin) has been shown to function
as a coreceptor for T-cell-tropic strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). We …

While CD4 and the chemokine receptors are the principal receptors for human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV), other cellular proteins, such as LFA-1, are also involved in HIV infection. …

Antibodies (Abs) are essential for the host immune response against SARS-CoV-2, and all
the vaccines developed so far have been designed to induce Abs targeting the SARS-CoV-2 …

Flow cytometry was used to study phagocytic function and release of reactive oxygen
products following phagocytosis by neutrophils (PMNL) and monocytes of heparinized whole …

Prototheca species are achlorophyllic algae that remain rare theca, which was identified by
culture as P. wickerhamii (API 20C pathogens. Fewer than 100 cases of protothecosis have …