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Patching up pandemic preparedness: a needle-free approach to influenza vaccination
December 15, 2025
Chris McMillan and Chloe Entriken of the University of Queensland, Australia, take us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Improved efficacy of an influenza DNA vaccine through high-density microarray patch delivery' published in the Journal of General Virology.
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Editor's Spotlight: Vaccination and evolutionary parallels between two strains of whooping cough bacteria
December 2, 2025
In this Editor’s Spotlight, Senior Editor, Jesse Shapiro, takes a closer look at this featured paper ‘No innocent bystanders: pertussis vaccination and evolutionary parallelisms between Bordetella parapertussis and Bordetella pertussis’, recently published in Microbial Genomics.
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How long does immunity last?
October 16, 2024
Dr Kieran Dee takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Smallpox vaccination campaigns resulted in age-associated population cross-immunity against monkeypox virus' published in Journal of General Virology.
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Demystifying Borrelia: novel computational methods to detect and identify OspA types
June 19, 2024
Dr Jonathan T Lee and Dr Li Hao take us behind the scenes of their latest publication ‘Development of a sequence-based in silico OspA typing method for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato’ published in Microbial Genomics.
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Integration of microbiological, epidemiological and statistical methods for estimating protection level within populations against diphtheria
July 17, 2023
Dr Noriko Kitamura takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'Evaluation and validation of a commercial ELISA versus the in vitro toxin neutralisation assay for determination of diphtheria antitoxin in human serum’ in Journal of Medical Microbiology.
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How do you vaccinate against a master of immune evasion?
June 14, 2023
Matthew Reeves takes us behind the scenes of their latest publication 'A temperature-dependent virus-binding assay reveals the presence of neutralizing antibodies in human cytomegalovirus gB vaccine recipients’ sera' published in Journal of General Virology.
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Vaccines as Tools to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance – a view from Twitter
March 7, 2023
Vaccines As Tools to Combat Antimicrobial Resisitance took place as in person meeting between 27–28 February 2023 and was held in Edgebaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre in Birmingham, UK. We've turned to Twitter to take a look at some of the highlights!
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Podcast: Could a new vaccine save the Tasmanian devil from a contagious cancer?
January 17, 2023
Every year, thousands of Tasmanian devils die from contagious facial tumours. On this episode of Microbe Talk, Charlotte speaks to Dr Andy Flies from the Menzies Institute at the University of Tasmania, Australia, about a potential new vaccine approach that could save these endangered animals.