Link: Mirror.co.uk
RESEARCHERS claim to have found a possible vaccine to prevent MRSA.
Now they are working with a manufacturer to develop the jab, which would be given to patients and staff in hospitals.
Around a quarter of the population carry the bug harmlessly in their noses. The team at Sheffield University found it produces more than 100 proteins during human infection.
Non-carriers have a potential natural immunity against some of the proteins, which led to the vaccine.
Human trials are planned by US firm Biosynexus, which funded the research.
Prof Simon Foster, who is working on the vaccine, told the Journal of Infectious Diseases: "MRSA is difficult to treat due to the increase of resistance towards antibiotics used in hospitals. This has led to renewed efforts to develop a vaccine."
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Hi, I am entering in the BioTech competion in Canada, and my partner and I were thinking of a project proposal regarding MRSA and finding a new antibiotic (because of MRSA’s increasing resistance to the current antibiotics used), or a vaccine, to prevent the infection altogether. Would it be at all possible for you to disclose the name of the vaccine, and how you came to find it?
Thanks very much.
I keep contracting this. So I am a carrier and need a vaccine to rid myself once and for all?
Please advise me and my doctor because we are at a loss. I have already been hospitalized and had to have surgery because of these infections.
I keep contracting this. So I am a carrier and need a vaccine to rid myself once and for all?
Please advise me and my doctor because we are at a loss. I have already been hospitalized and had to have surgery because of these infections.