Breakthrough in Designing a Better Salmonella Vaccine (image)

University of California - Davis

Caption

UC Davis researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding which cells afford optimal protection against Salmonella infection -- a critical step in developing a more effective and safe vaccine against a bacterium that annually kills an estimated one million people worldwide. This image shows Salmonella (in red) invading human cells.

Credit

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH

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