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Human infection (or challenge) studies involve the intentional administration of a pathogen (challenge agent)...
The first results from the world's first SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study have been published as a pre-print...
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The first results from the world's first SARS-CoV-2 human challenge study have been published as a pre-print. https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1121993/v1
The British Society for Immunology are providing reliable, evidence-based information on immunity, COVID-19 and vaccines to everyone who needs or wants it.
To be more accessible to diverse communities as part of this effort, they have translated some of their educational resources on immunity, COVID-19 and vaccines into different languages, including Arabic, Spanish and Yiddish.
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Streptococcus pyogenes is a leading cause of infection-related morbidity and mortality. A reinvigorated vaccine development effort calls for new clinically relevant human S pyogenes experimental infection models to support proof of concept evaluation of candidate vaccines.