Anthrax Vaccines

Reports summarize anthrax vaccines research from Institute of Infectious Disease

Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 29th, 2006

New research, "Anthrax vaccines: Pasteur to the present," is the subject of a report. According to recent research from the United States, "Anthrax has been a major cause of death in grazing animals and an occasional cause of death in humans for thousands of years. Since the late 1800s there has been an exceptional international history of anthrax vaccine development."

"Due to animal vaccinations, the rate of infection has dropped dramatically. Anthrax vaccines have progressed from uncharacterized whole-cell vaccines in 1881, to pXO2-negative spores in the 1930s, to culture filtrates absorbed to aluminum hydroxide in 1970, and likely to recombinant protective antigen in...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-11-29)

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