Research in brief

By contrast, most neutralising antibodies target the viral spike protein's relatively mutable S1 region, with which the virus binds to host-cell receptors. Known as the "Düsseldorf patient”, the 53-year-old man was treated at the University Hospital Düsseldorf for his HIV infection and received a stem cell transplant due to a blood cancer. Preventing maternal sepsis A multicountry clinical trial with more than 29 000 women in seven low and middle-income countries found only 1·6% of women who received a single dose of the antibiotic azithromycin during labour developed sepsis or died within six weeks after delivery, compared with 2·4% of those who received placebo.