Vaccine made with synthetic gene protects against deadly pneumonia
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 05:10
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed an experimental vaccine that appears to protect against an increasingly common and particularly deadly form of pneumococcal pneumonia. Details of the new vaccine, which was tested in an animal model, are reported in a paper published today in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.