Plague vaccine research and development
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Plague Vaccine Development: Current Research and Future Trends
Plague is one of the world's most lethal human diseases caused by Yersinia pestis, a Gram-negative bacterium. Despite overwhelming studies for many years worldwide, there is no safe and effective vaccine against this fatal disease. Inhalation of Y. pestis bacilli causes pneumonic plague, a fast growing and deadly dangerous disease. F1/LcrV-based vaccines failed to provide adequate protection in...
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it 011 a larger scale and I should be much obliged if you would publish this with the request that medical officers who are in charge of plague cases and are willing to try it, would communicate with me when I shall be pleased to send them some. The vaccine was made in the District Laboratory by kind permission of the A. D. P. H. of the N. W. F. Province. I would ask them when writing, to let m...
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venous injections of iodine in this disease has been recognized by previous workers, I used it as a routine measure, giving injections containing from 2 to 1? grs. In spite of these injections most patients showed severe constitutional disturbances within 48 hours of commencing treatment, with delirium and restlessness. Severe asthenia would set in about the third day of treatment, and the prog...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Microbiology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1364-5072,1365-2672
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.2001.01497.x