The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7427 p600
18 November 2006

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Vaccine against S aureus

Scientists have created a vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus. They tested surface proteins from the bacterium and selected four with strong antigenic properties to use in the vaccine (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2006;103:16942).