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Immunization
Reports summarize immunization study results from Macquarie University
February 11th, 2009
According to a study from Sydney, Australia, "Parasitic nematodes of humans, other animals and plants continue to impose a significant public health and economic burden worldwide, due to the diseases they cause. Promising antiparasitic drug and vaccine candidates have been discovered from excreted or secreted (ES) proteins released from the parasite and exposed to the immune system of the host." "Mining the entire expressed sequence tag (EST) data available from parasitic nematodes represents an approach to discover such ES targets. Methods and Findings: In this study, we predicted, using EST2Secretome, a novel, high-throughput, computational workflow system, 4,710 ES...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-02-11)
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