| Literature DB >> 17088932 |
Atul Kumar Johri1, Lawrence C Paoletti, Philippe Glaser, Meenakshi Dua, Puja Kumari Sharma, Guido Grandi, Rino Rappuoli.
Abstract
An ongoing public health challenge is to develop vaccines that are effective against infectious diseases that have global relevance. Vaccines against serotypes of group B Streptococcus (GBS) that are prevalent in the United States and Europe are not optimally efficacious against serotypes common to other parts of the world. New technologies and innovative approaches are being used to identify GBS antigens that overcome serotype-specificity and that could form the basis of a globally effective vaccine against this opportunistic pathogen. This Review highlights efforts towards this goal and describes a template that can be followed to develop vaccines against other bacterial pathogens.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17088932 PMCID: PMC2742968 DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1552
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Rev Microbiol ISSN: 1740-1526 Impact factor: 60.633