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2003 OCT 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaccines for parasitic and bacterial diseases are under development.
According to recent research published in the journal Current Opinion in Immunology, "The first decade of the millennium should mark the beginning of a new era in vaccine development, reaping the rewards of advances in genome characterization, antigen identification, understanding the molecular bases of protective immune responses, and adjuvant design and development. Advances in all of these areas have culminated in vaccine candidates entering clinical testing. These include vaccines against two of humankind's oldest and deadliest diseases, tuberculosis and malaria."
"Several vaccine candidates for each of these diseases will be tested in humans during the next few years," said Steven G. Reed at Corixa Corporation and Antonio Campos-Neto at the Infectious Diseases Research Institute in the United States. "A candidate vaccine for leishmaniasis, an infection that has taught us much about ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Vaccines for parasitic and bacterial diseases in development.