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Staph vaccine shows promise in mouse study
10-30-2006 · EurekAlert!By combining four proteins of Staphylococcus aureus that individually generated the strongest immune response in mice, scientists have created a vaccine that significantly protects the animals from diverse strains of the bacterium that cause disease in humans. A report describing the University of Chicago study, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, appears online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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