What is it about?

Anti-adhesion based vaccines are considered as new means to prevent or treat bacterial infections.

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Why is it important?

One of the first steps during bacterial infection is adhesion of the pathogen to host cells and interfering with this stage is alternative approaches to prevent infections.

Perspectives

Additional in vivo and in vitro studies are required to further elucidate the advantages and disadvantages of anti-adhesion treatments.

Mehrdad Gholami
Iran University of Medical Sciences

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This page is a summary of: Immunogenicity of a fusion protein containing PilQ and disulphide turn region of PilA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa in mice, Letters in Applied Microbiology, October 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/lam.12796.
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