MGB Division of Infectious Diseases

We are excited to welcome Caroline Sokol, MD, PhD, to the Ragon Institute as a new faculty member.

Her research explores how sensory neurons and the immune system work together in allergic disease, with the goal of developing new therapies to treat and prevent allergy.

Welcome, Dr. Sokol!

Sepsis Sepsis is defined as a dysregulated host response to infection that leads to life-threatening organ dysfunction. The infectious insult triggers a dysregulated immune response that variably activates a...

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Autologous neutralizing antibodies and polyfunctional T cells contribute to long-term HIV-1 post-intervention control - Nature Immunology This work describes three people living with HIV-1 who maintain long-term immune-mediated control of HIV-1 after pausing antiretroviral therapy. Autologous neutralizing antibodies and polyfunctional H...

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World Transplant Congress 2025 Highlights: Infectious Disease

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From endorsement of the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity to national implementation: country progress on health system preparedness to scale up a comprehensive obesity chronic care programme Addressing the global obesity crisis requires health systems that move beyond prevention to include care and treatment. However, translating global policy into national implementation remains challeng...

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Lead Screening Among Immigrant Children Seeking Humanitarian Protection in New York and Massachusetts, 2022-2024

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Really Rapid Review: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections 2026 Dr. Paul Sax rounds up key takeaways from CROI 2026, the leading HIV research conference.

Some highlights from CROI2026, with commentary. Enjoy. (Free to read.) #IDSky voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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ASSOCIATION OF PRIOR SARS-COV-2 INFECTION AND CORONARY MICROVASCULAR DYSFUNCTION: A PILOT STUDY Cardiovascular complications from COVID‐19 contribute to its morbidity. COVID-19 has been associated with coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), ye…

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Pretransplant serologic testing for fungal infections in a large commercial health insurance database, United States Abstract. Reactivation of latent fungal infections poses a substantial risk for solid organ transplantation (SOT) and hematopoietic cell transplantation (H

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Dermatologic Infections After Migration Through Latin America This cross-sectional study characterizes the clinical encounters associated with skin conditions among migrating people in the Matamoros and Reynosa humanitarian relief camps at the Mexico-US border.

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IDSA 2025 Guidelines on the use of vaccines for the prevention of seasonal COVID-19 infections in immunocompromised patients Abstract. Immunocompromised individuals face elevated risks of severe COVID-19, yet vaccination guidance for these populations continues to evolve. To supp

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Tecovirimat for the Treatment of Mpox | NEJM Tecovirimat is approved for smallpox treatment under the Food and Drug Administration Animal Rule on the basis of efficacy in nonhuman primate models of mpox (previously known as monkeypox). Howeve...

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Recommendations from the 2nd Consensus Workshop on Analytical Treatment Interruption in HIV Research Trials Analytical treatment interruption (ATI) is an important tool to evaluate interventions designed to achieve HIV eradication or long-term control without antiretroviral therapy. We convened a stakeholde...

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Progress in #STI science is real, but systems & investment aren’t keeping up. Our new #STIWatch update covers #CROI2026, #HPV prevention gaps, new STI advocacy agendas in Kenya, South Africa & Zimbabwe & a new partnership model for HIV/syphilis test w/big potential, tinyurl.com/stiwatchq1

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The neutralizing antibody titer correlate of COVID-19 risk in the COVID-19 variant immunologic landscape (COVAIL) trial was not modified by SARS-CoV-2 amino acid sequence distances In the Coronavirus Variant Immunologic Landscape Trial (COVAIL) conducted in the United States in 2022–2023, 985 participants received a second COVID-…

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Impact of COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibody Therapy on Subsequent Vaccine-elicited SARS-CoV-2 Immune Responses Prior COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment reduced antibody and memory B cell responses COVID-19 vaccination but did not affect frequency of CD4 and CD8

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