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  1. Article
    Precision Vaccinology Approaches for the Development of Adjuvanted Vaccines Targeted to Distinct Vulnerable Populations
    Dr Ofer Levy
  2. Article
    Reduced Steroid Metabolites Identify Infection-Prone Children in Two Independent Pre-Birth Cohorts
    Dr Ofer Levy
  3. Article
    OMIC Technologies and Vaccine Development: From the Identification of Vulnerable Individuals to the Formulation of Invulnerable Vaccines
  4. Article
    Increasing FIM2/3 antigen-content improves efficacy of Bordetella pertussis vaccines in mice in vivo without altering vaccine-induced human reactogenicity biomarkers in vitro
    Dr Ofer Levy
  5. Article
    Microphysiologic Human Tissue Constructs Reproduce Autologous Age-Specific BCG and HBV Primary Immunization in vitro
    Dr Ofer Levy
  6. Article
    Pentoxifylline Alone or in Combination with Gentamicin or Vancomycin Inhibits Live Microbe-Induced Proinflammatory Cytokine Production in Human Cord Blood and Cord Blood Monocytes In Vitro
    Dr Ofer Levy
  7. Article
    Early Life HIV-1 Immunization: Providing a Window for Protection Before Sexual Debut
    Dr Ofer Levy
  8. Article
    First International Precision Vaccines Conference: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Next-Generation Vaccines
    Dr Ofer Levy
  9. Article
    Immunomodulation to Prevent or Treat Neonatal Sepsis: Past, Present, and Future
    Dr Ofer Levy
  10. Article
    Anti-infective proteins and peptides differ in their activities in human newborn blood.
    Dr Ofer Levy
  11. Article
    Correction: Human alkaline phosphatase dephosphorylates microbial products and is elevated in preterm neonates with a history of late-onset sepsis
    Dr Ofer Levy
  12. Article
    Pentoxifylline, dexamethasone and azithromycin demonstrate distinct age-dependent and synergistic inhibition of TLR- and inflammasome-mediated cytokine production in human newborn and adult blood in vitro
    Dr Ofer Levy
  13. Article
    A Cost-Effective High-Throughput Plasma and Serum Proteomics Workflow Enables Mapping of the Molecular Impact of Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation
    Dr Ofer Levy
  14. Article
    Neonatal Immunization: Rationale, Current State, and Future Prospects
    Dr Ofer Levy
  15. Article
    Hepatic Legionella pneumophila Infection in an Infant With Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
    Dr Ofer Levy
  16. Article
    Adjuvant Effect of Bacille Calmette–Guérin on Hepatitis B Vaccine Immunogenicity in the Preterm and Term Newborn
    Dr Ofer Levy
  17. Article
    Identification and Characterization of Stimulator of Interferon Genes As a Robust Adjuvant Target for Early Life Immunization
    Dr Ofer Levy
  18. Article
    Toll-like receptor 8 agonist nanoparticles mimic immunomodulating effects of the live BCG vaccine and enhance neonatal innate and adaptive immune responses
    Dr Ofer Levy
  19. Article
    Waning Immunity and Microbial Vaccines—Workshop of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
    Dr Ofer Levy
  20. Article
    Human newborn B cells mount an interferon-α/β receptor-dependent humoral response to respiratory syncytial virus
    Dr Ofer Levy
  21. Article
    Human alkaline phosphatase dephosphorylates microbial products and is elevated in preterm neonates with a history of late-onset sepsis
    Dr Ofer Levy
  22. Article
    Protecting the Newborn and Young Infant from Infectious Diseases: Lessons from Immune Ontogeny
    Dr Ofer Levy
  23. Article
    Pentoxifylline inhibits TLR- and inflammasome-mediated in vitro inflammatory cytokine production in human blood with greater efficacy and potency in newborns
    Dr Ofer Levy
  24. Article
    Mononuclear Phagocyte System
    Dr Ofer Levy
  25. Article
    Use of cidofovir in pediatric patients with adenovirus infection
    Dr Ofer Levy
  26. Article
    A Meningococcal Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccine Incorporating Genetically Attenuated Endotoxin Dissociates Inflammation from Immunogenicity
    Dr Ofer Levy
  27. Article
    Age-Specific Adjuvant Synergy: Dual TLR7/8 and Mincle Activation of Human Newborn Dendritic Cells Enables Th1 Polarization
    Dr Ofer Levy
  28. Article
    Antimicrobial Proteins and Peptides in Early Life: Ontogeny and Translational Opportunities
    Dr Ofer Levy
  29. Article
    Distinct TLR-mediated cytokine production and immunoglobulin secretion in human newborn naïve B cells
    Dr Ofer Levy
  30. Article
    Heterologous vaccine effects
    Dr Ofer Levy
  31. Article
    In vitro cytokine induction by TLR-activating vaccine adjuvants in human blood varies by age and adjuvant
    Dr Ofer Levy
  32. Article
    Adjuvant-induced Human Monocyte Secretome Profiles Reveal Adjuvant- and Age-specific Protein Signatures
    Dr Ofer Levy
  33. Article
    Harnessing the beneficial heterologous effects of vaccination
    Dr Ofer Levy
  34. Article
    Use of cidofovir in pediatric patients with adenovirus infection
    Dr Ofer LevyDionne A Graham
  35. Article
    Circulating Human Neonatal Naïve B Cells are Deficient in CD73 Impairing Purine Salvage
    Dr Ofer Levy
  36. Article
    Changing oral vaccine to inactivated polio vaccine might increase mortality
    Dr Ofer Levy
  37. Article
    Pilot experience with opebacan/rBPI21 in myeloablative hematopoietic cell transplantation
    Dr Ofer Levy
  38. Article
    Pediatric Vaccine Adjuvants
    Dr Ofer Levy
  39. Article
    Oral antibiotics increase blood neutrophil maturation and reduce bacteremia and necrotizing enterocolitis in the immediate postnatal period of preterm pigs
    Dr Ofer Levy
  40. Article
    The Imidazoquinoline Toll-Like Receptor-7/8 Agonist Hybrid-2 Potently Induces Cytokine Production by Human Newborn and Adult Leukocytes
    Dr Ofer Levy
  41. Article
    Systems vaccinology: a promise for the young and the poor
    Dr Ofer Levy
  42. Article
    Staphylococcus epidermidisBacteremia Induces Brain Injury in Neonatal Mice via Toll-like Receptor 2-Dependent and -Independent Pathways
    Dr Ofer Levy
  43. Article
    Ready to benefit from training: heterologous effects of early life immunization
    Dr Ofer Levy
  44. Article
    The effect of stable macromolecular complexes of ionic polyphosphazene on HIV Gag antigen and on activation of human dendritic cells and presentation to T-cells
    Dr Ofer Levy
  45. Article
    Soluble Mediators Regulating Immunity in Early Life
    Dr Ofer Levy
  46. Article
    Infection-induced inflammation and cerebral injury in preterm infants
    Dr Ofer Levy
  47. Article
    Ontogeny of early life immunity
    Dr Ofer Levy
  48. Article
    A Prime Time for Trained Immunity: Innate Immune Memory in Newborns and Infants
    Dr Ofer Levy
  49. Article
    Fc gamma receptors in respiratory syncytial virus infections: implications for innate immunity
    Dr Ofer Levy
  50. Article
    Innate immune memory: implications for development of pediatric immunomodulatory agents and adjuvanted vaccines
    Dr Ofer Levy
  51. Article
    Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms in hematopoietic cell transplant patients affecting early recognition of, and response to, endotoxin
    Dr Ofer Levy
  52. Article
    Soluble Ecto-5′-nucleotidase (5′-NT), Alkaline Phosphatase, and Adenosine Deaminase (ADA1) Activities in Neonatal Blood Favor Elevated Extracellular Adenosine
    Dr Ofer Levy
  53. Article
    Vaccine-induced immunity in early life
    Dr Ofer Levy
  54. Article
    Immune response to vaccine adjuvants during the first year of life
    Dr Ofer Levy
  55. Article
    Heterologous ("Nonspecific") and Sex-Differential Effects of Vaccines: Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, and Emerging Immunologic Mechanisms
    Dr Ofer Levy
  56. Article
    The Ultra-Potent and Selective TLR8 Agonist VTX-294 Activates Human Newborn and Adult Leukocytes
    Dr Ofer Levy
  57. Article
    Role of Innate Immunity in Neonatal Infection
    Dr Ofer Levy
  58. Article
    Neonatal Host Defense against Staphylococcal Infections
    Dr Ofer Levy
  59. Article
    Plasma‐mediated immune suppression: a neonatal perspective
    Dr Ofer Levy
  60. Article
    Innate Immune Function by Toll-like Receptors: Distinct Responses in Newborns and the Elderly
  61. Article
    A Neonatal Model of Intravenous Staphylococcus epidermidis Infection in Mice <24 h Old Enables Characterization of Early Innate Immune Responses
    Dr Ofer Levy
  62. Article
    Imidazoquinoline Toll-like receptor 8 agonists activate human newborn monocytes and dendritic cells through adenosine-refractory and caspase-1–dependent pathways
    Dr Ofer Levy
  63. Article
    Innate immune activation in neonatal tracheal aspirates suggests endotoxin-driven inflammation
    Dr Ofer Levy
  64. Article
    Responsiveness of human monocytes to the commensal bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis develops late in gestation
  65. Article
    Neonatal Plasma Polarizes TLR4-Mediated Cytokine Responses towards Low IL-12p70 and High IL-10 Production via Distinct Factors
    Dr Ofer Levy
  66. Article
    Potential Role of Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus Infection in Preterm Brain Injury
    Dr Ofer Levy
  67. Article
    Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein (rBPI 21 ) and Fluoroquinolone Mitigate Radiation-Induced Bone Marrow Aplasia and Death
    Dr Ofer Levy
  68. Article
    Toll2011 at Lago di Garda: studying danger sensors by the guard towers at the lake
    Dr Ofer Levy
  69. Article
    Deficient expression of bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein in immunocompromised hosts: translational potential of replacement therapy
    Dr Ofer Levy
  70. Article
    Development of Newborn and Infant Vaccines
    Dr Ofer Levy
  71. Article
    17(R)-Resolvin D1 differentially regulates TLR4-mediated responses of primary human macrophages to purified LPS and liveE. coli
    Dr Ofer Levy
  72. Article
    Systemic Stimulation of TLR2 Impairs Neonatal Mouse Brain Development
  73. Article
    Age-Dependent Maturation of Toll-Like Receptor-Mediated Cytokine Responses in Gambian Infants
    Dr Ofer Levy
  74. Article
    Challenges in infant immunity: implications for responses to infection and vaccines
    Dr Ofer Levy
  75. Article
    Adenosine modulates Toll-like receptor function: basic mechanisms and translational opportunities
    Dr Ofer Levy
  76. Article
    Human Neonatal Peripheral Blood Leukocytes Demonstrate Pathogen-Specific Coordinate Expression of TLR2, TLR4/MD2, and MyD88 During Bacterial Infection In Vivo
    Dr Ofer Levy
  77. Article
    Clinical Features and Outcome of Patients With IRAK-4 and MyD88 Deficiency
    Dr Ofer Levy
  78. Article
    Method of bacterial killing differentially affects the human innate immune response to Staphylococcus epidermidis
    Dr Ofer Levy
  79. Article
    Role of Innate Host Defenses in Susceptibility to Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis
    Dr Ofer Levy
  80. Article
    TLR2 Mediates Recognition of Live Staphylococcus epidermidis and Clearance of Bacteremia
  81. Article
    Neonatal innate immunity in allergy development
    Dr Ofer Levy
  82. Article
    Skewed pattern of Toll-like receptor 4-mediated cytokine production in human neonatal blood: Low LPS-induced IL-12p70 and high IL-10 persist throughout the first month of life
    Dr Ofer Levy
  83. Article
    Neonatal Vaccination
    Dr Ofer Levy
  84. Article
    Endotoxin-Directed Innate Immunity in Tracheal Aspirates of Mechanically Ventilated Human Neonates
    Dr Ofer Levy
  85. Article
    Developmental Biology of the Innate Immune Response: Implications for Neonatal and Infant Vaccine Development
    Dr Ofer Levy
  86. Article
    Antibiotic proteins of polymorphonuclear leukocytes
    Dr Ofer Levy
  87. Article
    Reduced levels of antimicrobial proteins and peptides in human cord blood plasma: Table 1
    Dr Ofer Levy
  88. Article
    Safety and efficacy of neonatal vaccination
    Dr Ofer Levy
  89. Article
    Allogeneic transplantation successfully corrects immune defects, but not susceptibility to colitis, in a patient with nuclear factor-κB essential modulator deficiency
    Dr Ofer Levy
  90. Article
    Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) and BPI homologs at mucosal sites
    Dr Ofer Levy
  91. Article
    Novel Vaccines: Bridging Research, Development and Production
    Dr Ofer Levy
  92. Article
    Potential of immunomodulatory agents for prevention and treatment of neonatal sepsis
    Dr Ofer Levy
  93. Article
    Defective innate immunity predisposes murine neonates to poor sepsis outcome but is reversed by TLR agonists
    Dr Ofer Levy
  94. Article
    Immunostimulatory activity of Toll-like receptor 8 agonists towards human leucocytes: basic mechanisms and translational opportunities
    Dr Ofer Levy
  95. Article
    Evidence of a bactericidal permeability increasing protein in an invertebrate, theCrassostrea gigas Cg-BPI
    Dr Ofer Levy
  96. Article
    Selective predisposition to bacterial infections in IRAK-4–deficient children: IRAK-4–dependent TLRs are otherwise redundant in protective immunity
    Dr Ofer Levy
  97. Article
    Neonatal immune responses to coagulase-negative staphylococci
  98. Article
    Innate immunity of the newborn: basic mechanisms and clinical correlates
    Dr Ofer Levy
  99. Article
    Bruton tyrosine kinase (Btk): key for signaling via Toll-like receptor 8
    Dr Ofer Levy
  100. Article
    Recombinant Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein rBPI21 Protects against Pneumococcal Disease
    Dr Ofer Levy
  101. Article
    Unique efficacy of Toll-like receptor 8 agonists in activating human neonatal antigen-presenting cells
    Dr Ofer Levy
  102. Article
    Functional and biochemical characterization of epithelial bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein
    Dr Ofer Levy
  103. Article
    Neonatal Babesiosis
    Dr Ofer Levy
  104. Article
    Innate immunity of the human newborn: distinct cytokine responses to LPS and other Toll-like receptor agonists
    Dr Ofer Levy
  105. Article
    Human disease resulting from gene mutations that interfere with appropriate nuclear factor‐κB activation
    Dr Ofer Levy
  106. Article
    Human nuclear factor κB essential modulator mutation can result in immunodeficiency without ectodermal dysplasia
    Dr Ofer Levy
  107. Article
    Antimicrobial proteins and peptides: anti-infective molecules of mammalian leukocytes
    Dr Ofer Levy
  108. Article
    Genetic Screening for Susceptibility to Infection in the NICU Setting: Commentary on the article by Ahrens et al. on page 652
    Dr Ofer Levy
  109. Article
    Critical Role of the Complement System in Group B Streptococcus-Induced Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Release
    Dr Ofer Levy
  110. Article
    Endotoxemia and elevation of lipopolysaccharide-binding protein after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
    Dr Ofer Levy
  111. Article
    Disseminated Varicella Infection Due to the Vaccine Strain of Varicella‐Zoster Virus, in a Patient with a Novel Deficiency in Natural Killer T Cells
    Dr Ofer Levy
  112. Article
    Expression of BPI (bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein) in human mucosal epithelia
    Dr Ofer Levy
  113. Article
    Impaired Innate Immunity at Birth: Deficiency of Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein (BPI) in the Neutrophils of Newborns
    Dr Ofer Levy
  114. Article
    Neutrophil defense in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation: bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) and defensins in graft-derived neutrophils1
    Dr Ofer Levy
  115. Article
    Lipid mediator-induced expression of bactericidal/ permeability-increasing protein (BPI) in human mucosal epithelia
    Dr Ofer Levy
  116. Article
    FATAL DISSEMINATED CANDIDA LUSITANIAE INFECTION IN AN INFANT WITH CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE
    Dr Ofer Levy
  117. Article
    Therapeutic potential of the
    Dr Ofer Levy
  118. Article
    A Neutrophil-Derived Anti-Infective Molecule: Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein
    Dr Ofer Levy
  119. Article
    Enhancement of Neonatal Innate Defense: Effects of Adding an N-Terminal Recombinant Fragment of Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein on Growth and Tumor Necrosis Factor-Inducing Activity of Gram-Negative Bacteria Tested in Neonatal Cord Blood E...
    Dr Ofer Levy
  120. Article
    Impaired Innate Immunity in the Newborn: Newborn Neutrophils Are Deficient in Bactericidal/Permeability-Increasing Protein
    Dr Ofer Levy
  121. Article
    Extracellular accumulation of potently microbicidal bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein and p15s in an evolving sterile rabbit peritoneal inflammatory exudate.
    Dr Ofer Levy
  122. Article
    Integration of antimicrobial host defenses: role of the bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein
    Dr Ofer Levy
  123. Article
    Individual and synergistic effects of rabbit granulocyte proteins on Escherichia coli.
    Dr Ofer Levy
  124. Article
    Structural characterization of BPI-modulating 15 kDa proteins from rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes: Identification of a novel family of leukocyte proteins
    Dr Ofer Levy