Infectious diseases are a major threat to global human health, yet prophylactic treatment
options can be limited, as safe and efficacious vaccines exist only for a fraction of all …

Lay abstract The purpose of this review is to highlight recent scientific developments and
provide an overview of virus self-assembly and viral particle dynamics. Viruses are …

Stable, effective, easy-to-manufacture vaccines are critical to stopping the COVID-19
pandemic resulting from the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. We constructed a vaccine candidate …

Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV), a non-enveloped plant virus, and empty CPMV (eCPMV), a
virus-like particle (VLP) composed of CPMV capsid without nucleic acids, are potent in situ …

Abstract The Circumsporozoite Protein (CSP) of Plasmodium falciparum contains an N-
terminal region, a conserved Region I (RI), a junctional region, 25–42 copies of major …

The ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic
had brought disastrous consequences throughout the entire world. While several …

While synthetic nanoparticles play a very important role in modern medicine, concerns
regarding toxicity, sustainability, stability, and dispersity are drawing increasing attention to …

Fish nocardiosis is a chronic granulomatous bacterial disease mainly caused by three
pathogenic bacteria, including Nocardia seriolae, N. asteroids and N. salmonicida …

Tularemia is a highly contagious disease caused by infection with Francisella tularensis (Ft),
a pathogenic intracellular gram-negative bacterium that infects a wide range of animals and …

Tularemia is caused by subspecies of Francisella tularensis and can manifest in a variety of
disease states, with the pneumonic presentation resulting in the greatest mortality. Despite …