AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
2004 APR 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have developed a needle-free skin patch vaccination method for anthrax.
"Three immunizations of mice with recombinant protective antigen (rPA) by transcutaneous immunization (TCI) induced long-term neutralizing antibody titers that were superior to those obtained with aluminum-adsorbed rPA. In addition, rPA alone exhibited adjuvant activity for TCI," investigators in the United States report.
"Forty-six weeks after completion of TCI, 100% protection was observed against lethal anthrax challenge," wrote Gary R. Matyas and collaborators at the Walter Reed Army Institute Research, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, and Iomai Corporation.
Matyas and his coauthors published their study in Infection and Immunity ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Needle-free skin patch vaccination method for anthrax developed.