A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

He began investigating the poliovirus. To start with, he had to sort the 125 strains of the virus. He found that they fell into three basic types and knew that a vaccine would have to include ...

Researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs). These particles mimic the outer protein shell of poliovirus, but ...

BECAUSE of the favorable rates of serum-antibody conversion obtained in a pilot study in Elkins, West Virginia, with two feedings of a trivalent oral poliovirus vaccine, 1 the same vaccine was ...

A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research has found. A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research led by the University of Leeds has found.

A less-virulent poliovirus generated by altering codon usage suggests a new strategy for vaccine development. Figure 1: Development of an attenuated vaccine by two classical methods and the ...

Though BCG can be given any time from birth to 15 days of life, in Kenya it is given along with the zero dose of oral polio ... of BCG vaccine. It may take three to six months for the scar to ...