New Vaccine Strategy Identified for Explosive Emerging Diseases
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 09:22
in Health & Medicine
A 'designer' manganese-peptide antioxidant of the world's toughest bacterium, combined with radiation, have shown to be successful in the development of a vaccine to counter Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus (VEEV), a biothreat agent, and Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne illness causing severe outbreaks around the world, according to a study "Deinococcus Mn2+-Peptide Complex: A Novel Approach to Alphavirus Vaccine Development," published online May 22 in the journal, Vaccine, published by Elsevier.