Scientists Discover Key to Effective Meningitis Vaccine
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
Results of Study May Help Eradicate Dangerous Disease, Contribute to Solving Global Health Problem: A study conducted by Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland and University of Massachusetts Medical Center scientists and published in the Journal of Immunology identifies a new mutant vaccine antigen for Neisseria meningitidis (also called meningococcus) that has the potential to improve vaccine development against dangerous bacterial infections including meningitis.