Sentences with phrase «vaccine against the toxin»

In its first test in people, a vaccine against the toxin ricin appears safe and generates antibodies that are expected to be protective against the potential bioterrorism agent.

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Most of the diseases our country vaccinates against were declining or eradicated before vaccines came out, and the toxins in vaccines are worse to a baby's body than the disease itself.

Although much of that money goes to stockpiling vaccines and improving disease surveillance and information exchange, part of it pays for research into improved vaccines and other «countermeasures» against smallpox, anthrax, and botulinum toxin.

This «suggests that antibodies specific for this conserved region could provide protection against multiple toxin - mediated clostridium infections and points to a generalizable strategy for generating safe vaccine antigens for this class of toxins,» they concluded.

That knowledge and the cloaking proteins themselves might now be turned against the toxin - the deadliest known to humankind - to deliver vaccines or drugs that could prevent or treat the disease.

The key ingredient in the existing vaccine against whooping cough, or pertussis, is an inactive form of pertussis toxin.

As good as those maternal antibodies are, they can't protect the puppy against the other toxins contained in vaccines such as the chemical adjuvants and preservatives which contain harmful chemicals including mercury, MSG, aluminum and formaldehyde.