New principle for developing vaccines

Infections with a certain type of bacteria (group B streptococcus) can lead to severe, sometimes life-threatening, infections in newborn infants. In Sweden some 100 children contract these infections each year. Now medical researchers at Lund University are on the track of a possible **future vaccine**. The method they are using may also be of significance for other new vaccines. A new **fusion protein** based on this idea turned out to have the very best effect on group B streptococcijust the opposite of the conventional principles. "AlphaGalileo":[ http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=525870&ez_search=1]

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