Genetics study reveals how pneumococcus bacteria evolve to evade vaccines
Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Genetics has provided surprising insights into why vaccines used in both the UK and US to combat serious childhood infections can eventually fail. The study, published today in Nature Genetics, which investigates how bacteria change their disguise to evade the vaccines, has implications for how future vaccines can be made more effective.