In April 2000, specialty pharmaceutical company Elan and American Home Products formed a research alliance to develop a vaccine known as AN-1792, to both prevent the onset of Alzheimer's and treat mild to moderate stages of the disease.
Dr. Paul Fiset, a microbiologist who helped develop a vaccine against the infectious disease known as Q fever, or Balkan grippe, died on Feb. 27 at a hospital in Baltimore.
British physician and scientist who, helped develop a vaccine against erythroblastosis fetalis (also known as Rh hemolytic disease of the newborn)—a potentially fatal complication that may occur when a fetus and its mother have incompatible blood Rh factors.
Several groups have attempted to develop a vaccine strategy using tumor cell lysates as a possible TAA source, since TAAs have yet to be identified for most human cancers.
The results indicate that mosquitoes are far less efficient at transmitting malaria than is an IV injection, and suggest that optimizing the protective efficacy of the PfSPZ Vaccine will require developing a vaccine administration system that is as efficient as IV inoculation.
Case in point: As soon as scientists developed a vaccine for the 2013 strain to be placed into the national stockpile, the virus changed – a phenomenon known as "drift".
There's no question that the vaccine candidate is a huge achievement: No one has ever developed a vaccine against a parasite, especially one as wily as Plasmodium falciparum, the major cause of malaria in Africa.
Despite the sometimes limited success and the gaps in our knowledge, the quest for developing a vaccine against T. cruzi infection remains as a crucial step in the fight against this largely neglected disease affecting predominantly the poorest people from the Americas.
Because of these concerns, we focused our attention on developing a vaccine based on pneumococcal proteins, such as PspA, that contribute to virulence and are common to all serotypes [47].
Rossi L. et al declare that: being duty-bound to vaccination doesn't allow people to develop a "vaccination conscience" and so accept vaccines as the most important effective tool in infectious diseases prevention.
