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Caitlin O. Messingham

University of Iowa

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Acute malaria dysregulates specialized lymph node macrophages to suppress vaccine-elicited protection against Ebola virus

Jonah M. Elliff, Lindsey Grady, Kyle Lee O’Donnell, Caitlin O. Messingham, Kai J. Rogers, Jobaida Akther, Andrew L. Thurman, Rahul Vijay, Alejandro A. Pezzulo, Troy D. Randall, Andrea Marzi, Noah S. Butler, Wendy J. Maury

This study shows that acute malaria infection reduces the effectiveness of a low-dose Ebola vaccine by impairing antibody responses in lymph node macrophages, which can be mitigated with higher vaccine doses.

mBio · Dec 30, 2025Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Ebola's Hidden Target: Virus Transmission to and Accumulation within Skin

Paige T. Richards, Anthony M. Fleck, Radhika Patel, Maryam Fakhimi, Dana Bohan, Kathleen M. Geoghegan-Barek, Allison E. Stolte, Caitlin O. Messingham, Samuel J. Connell, Tyler P. Crowe, Françoise A. Gourronc, Ricardo Carrion, Anthony Griffiths, David Kyle Meyerholz, Aloysius John Klingelhutz, , Wendy J. Maury

This study investigates how Ebola virus infects and accumulates in skin tissues of infected animals, identifying TIM-1 as a critical host receptor for viral dissemination.

bioRxiv · Apr 4, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology