Plague Vaccines
Researchers at Cornell University, Department of Genetic Medicine target plague vaccines
Published in Health Risk Factor Week, November 28th, 2006
Researchers detail in "Protective immunity against respiratory tract challenge with Yersinia pestis in mice immunized with an adenovirus-based vaccine vector expressing V antigen," new data in plague. "The aerosol form of the bacterium Yersinia pestis causes the pneumonic plague, a rapidly fatal disease. At present, no plague vaccines are available for use in the United States," researchers in the United States report.
"One candidate for the development of a subunit vaccine is the Y. pestis virulence (V) antigen, a protein that mediates the function of the Yersinia outer protein virulence factors and suppresses inflammatory responses in the host. On the basis of the...
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