Virus-like particle vaccine protects monkeys from chikungunya virus

Friday, January 29, 2010 - 14:35 in Health & Medicine

An experimental vaccine developed using non-infectious virus-like particles (VLP) has protected macaques and mice against chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen that has infected millions of people in Africa and Asia and causes debilitating pain, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found...

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