There was, as yet, no protective vaccine against the disease - or wait a minute, was there?
It is this capsid or protein shell which makes protective vaccines a possibility.
A protective vaccine has been developed for anthrax; however, it is primarily given to military personnel.
He is known for his work in isolating the typhus bacterium and developing a protective vaccine.
Although not yet evaluated as a protective vaccine, heat killed M vaccae has been shown to reverse the progress of tuberculosis, even that due to multidrug resistant strain.
The Challenge Why is it that we still do not have a protective vaccine against HIV 22 years after its initial identification?
It devoted itself to developing protective vaccines, and it concentrated on basic research into ways to control lethal micro-organisms.
Control against infection of S. japonicum requires multiple efforts consisting of education, eliminating the disease from infected individuals, controlling the vector, and providing a protective vaccine.
This has spurred attempts to modify the capsular polysaccharides such that vaccines protective for all at-risk groups will result.
The diarrhea is caused by the rotavirus, and last year the Government recommended that every infant in the United States get the protective vaccine.