Familiarity Breeds Exempt: Why Staph Vaccines Don't Work in Humans - University of California San Diego

UC San Diego researchers say they may have found the reason why multiple human clinical trials of staphylococcus vaccines have failed: the bacteria knows us too well.

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are generally harmless, but can sometimes become an opportunistic pathogen. Past efforts to develop a vaccine have proved fruitless. Credit: National Institute of Aller… [+5784 chars]

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