Vaccine Delivery

Murine Study Finds Mucosal Vaccine Useful for STDs

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 11th, 1998

Mucosal immunization provided a high and long-lasting level of immunity from sexually transmitted viral infections of the female genital tract in murine studies from Canada.

"When we compared the intranasal (inl) and intraperitoneal (ip) routes of immunization, we found that mice immunized inl with AdgB8 maintained higher levels of protection against a lethal intravaginal herpes simplex virus-2 challenge," researchers W. Scott Gallichan and Kenneth L. Rosenthal wrote ("Long-Term Immunity and Protection against Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 in the Murine Female Genital Tract after Mucosal but Not Systemic Immunization," Journal of Infectious Diseases, May...

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