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Local Vaccination Protects against Eye Disease

Published in Proteomics Weekly, December 21st, 1998

Local ocular vaccination protected better than systemic vaccination against eye disease following ocular herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection, according to animal study findings.

"Since local vaccination should produce a stronger local immune response than systemic vaccination, these results suggest that the local ocular immune response is very important in protecting against eye disease due to primary HSV-1 infection," wrote Anthony B. Nesburn, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, and colleagues ("Local Periocular Vaccination Protects against Eye Disease More Effectively Than Systemic Vaccination following Primary Ocular Herpes Simplex Virus...

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