Drug Delivery

Viruses could deliver HIV, malaria, rabies and cancer vaccines as pills

Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 13th, 2005

Rabies, HIV, cancer and malaria could all be prevented with pills in the future, if a new technique using specially modified viruses to deliver vaccines is adopted, according to scientists speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's 156th Meeting at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

"We can take a special type of virus which only infects bacteria, called a bacteriophage, and replace some of its DNA with vaccine DNA, and then use the phage to deliver vaccines in a highly efficient way," said Dr. John March of the Moredun Research Institute, Penicuik, near Edinburgh.

A vaccine packaged in this way is cheap, simple to make, stable and...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2005-04-13)

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