Immunization could prevent gastrointestinal disease like Salmonella

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 - 14:01 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from MIT and the University of California at Irvine have developed a new strategy to immunize against microbes that invade the gastrointestinal tract, including Salmonella, which causes more foodborne illness in the United States than any other bacteria. The researchers targeted a molecule that Salmonella and other bacteria secrete to scavenge iron, which is […]

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