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May 14, 2015

Engineering bacteria to design vaccines
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) May 14, 2015
The EU-funded MycoSynVac project combines gene engineering and biotechnology to design a novel veterinary vaccine chassis based on the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. The Mycosplasma bacteria are the smallest self-replicating organisms. They lack a cell wall, making them resistant to almost all antibiotics, and infections caused by Mycoplasma in livestock?result in annual multimillion euro losses in Europe and throughout the world. Although there are vaccines against two species of Mycoplasma tha ... read more

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