Vaccines
Reports from Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Describe Recent Advances in Vaccines
Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 18th, 2012
2012 APR 18 -- Investigators discuss in "Immunogenicity and protective efficacy of a tuberculosis DNA vaccine expressing a fusion protein of Ag85B-Esat6-HspX in mice" new findings in Vaccines. "Tuberculosis remains a major infectious disease worldwide due to the low efficacy of available vaccine of the Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). DNA vaccines are especially promising candidates; however, the efficacy of DNA vaccine expressing single antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTb) is limited," scientists writing in the journal Vaccine report.
"In this study, a plasmid DNA vaccine, pAEH, was constructed and designed to...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2012-04-18)
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