Sandra Bos (@sandrabos.bsky.social)

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 — 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬? In our latest paper in Cell Reports, we show that the answer may lie in pre-existing cross-reactive antibodies. www.cell.com/cell-reports... 🔍 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 in comments

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Anti-dengue virus antibodies that elicit complement-mediated lysis of Zika virion correlate with protection from severe dengue disease Dias et al. show that cross-reactive anti-dengue virus antibodies in pre-infection plasma that mediate complement-dependent virolysis of Zika virus correlate with protection from subsequent severe den... https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247%2825%2900384-5

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