Kennedy’s decision to replace ACIP wholesale and the comments he has made about deviating from standard vaccine policymaking ...

Data=KCDC Last year, the number of legal infectious diseases increased by 54.5% compared to the previous year. The whooping ...

The vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis is given as a four-component vaccine (vaccines against four diseases given at the same time so the child only needs one injection ...

The authors thank Marie-Jose Quentin-Millet and Sanofi Pasteur for the provision of purified pertussis toxin. Infant Pertussis Study Group: Isabelle Poilane, MD (Hopital Jean Verdier, Bondy ...

The FDA has approved use of GlaxoSmithKline’s Boostrix (Tdap) vaccine for use during the third trimester of pregnancy, for prevention of pertussis (whooping cough) in infants younger than two ...

Figure 3. Mode of action of representative enterotoxins active on enterocyte membrane. Escherichia coli thermostable toxin (STa), a hormone-like enterotoxin, recognizes the extracellular domain of ...

Bacterial toxins are toxic substances that are produced and released by bacteria to target other bacterial or host cells. Bacteria often have antitoxins to avoid the deleterious effects of toxins.

For example, AB 5 toxins — which include Shigella, cholera and Pertussis toxins — and subtilase cytotoxin cleave GRP78, which removes the breaks on the UPR and stimulates ER-stress-induced ...

Don’t think that botulinum toxin therapy is just for women. In fact, one of the most common surgical and nonsurgical procedures for men is neurotoxin, according to a 2021 AAFPRS report .