By inducing the immune system to do a job that antibiotics sometimes can’t, scientists have found a way to fend off a microbe that causes deadly blood infections.
The researchers fashioned a vaccine against the troublesome bacterium Staphylococcus aureus by packaging two of the microbe’s own carbohydrate molecules with a protein that the immune system recognizes as foreign.
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