Herpes virus: To vaccinate or not to vaccinate
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 14:14
in Health & Medicine
Dr. Marcia Blackman and her research team at the Trudeau Institute have followed up on an intriguing report published in the journal Nature in May 2007 by Dr. Herbert Virgin, et al., showing that mice persistently infected with certain forms of herpesvirus, which can establish lifelong latent infections, are resistant to infection with bacterial pathogens.
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