Scientists Discover Key to Effective Meningitis Vaccine

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 11:30 in Health & Medicine

Results of Study May Help Eradicate Dangerous Disease, Contribute to Solving Global Health Problem: A study conducted by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland and University of Massachusetts Medical Center scientists and published in the Journal of Immunology identifies a new mutant vaccine antigen for Neisseria meningitidis (also called meningococcus) that has the potential to improve vaccine development against dangerous bacterial infections including meningitis.

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