Novel therapeutic approach shows promise against multiple bacterial pathogens

A team of scientists from government, academia and private industry has developed a novel treatment that protects mice from infection with the bacterium that causes tularaemia, a highly infectious disease of rodents, sometimes transmitted to people, and also known as rabbit fever. In additional experiments with human immune cells, the treatment also demonstrated protection against three other types of disease-causing bacteria that, like the tularaemia bacteria, occur naturally, can be highly virulent, and are considered possible agents of bioterrorism...

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