TUCSON, Ariz., June 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Autopsies of two young boys who died of heart problems shortly after COVID-19 vaccination showed a pattern consistent with a toxic stress injury to the ...

The key ingredient in the recipe that make staphylococcus and streptococcus infections so dangerous? Superantigen toxins. A new study from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, twenty years in the ...

Since the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), scientists have been conducting extensive studies to ...

In a recent cutting-edge study, US researchers unveiled an anti-staphylococcal enterotoxin B monoclonal antibody that can be repurposed to target the cleavage site of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein ...

Mimetic peptides that compete for bacterial toxin binding to costimulatory receptor prevent toxic shock-related death in mice. Blocking the binding of bacterial superantigens to the co-stimulatory ...

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cedars-Sinai believe they have discovered why some covid-19 patients develop severe inflammation. Since March, scientists have ...

Tumour Targeted Superantigen therapy is a novel form of cancer therapy. The principle involves targeting the superantigen with subsequent activation of cytotoxic T cells in tumor tissue. ABR214936 is ...

The etiology of Kawasaki disease (KD) is still unknown, but an infectious origin and involvement of IgA B cells has been suggested. Coronary complications of KD can be reduced with IVIG therapy. It is ...

Clinical and immunological similarities between Kawasaki Disease (KD) and classical superantigen (SAg) mediated diseases such as the toxic shock syndrome lend credence to the hypothesis that SAgs may ...

Staphylococcal and streptococcal infections affect millions of individuals each year. They are a leading cause of sepsis and account for many cases of pneumonia and post-surgical infections. Despite ...