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Researchers at University of Wurzburg have published new data on gene therapy
May 29th, 2008
"Neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of infectious childhood mortality worldwide. Most research efforts have hitherto focused on disease isolates belonging to only a few hypervirulent clonal lineages," scientists writing in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America report. "However, up to 10% of the healthy human population is temporarily colonized by genetically diverse strains mostly with little or no pathogenic potential. Currently, little is known about the biology of carriage strains and their evolutionary relationship with disease isolates. The expression of a polysaccharide capsule is the only trait...
Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2008-05-29)
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