Anthrax capsule vaccine protects monkeys from lethal infection

Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

a naturally occurring component of the bacterium that causes the disease—protected monkeys from lethal anthrax infection, according to U.S. Army scientists. The study, which appears in the Jan. 20th print edition of the journal Vaccine, represents the first successful use of a non-toxin vaccine to protect monkeys from the disease.

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