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Biologist Develops Chagas Disease Vaccine
Date: 17 June 2013 20:59
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Date: 17 June 2013 20:59
In a prestigious journal this year, researchers labeled Chagas disease as the new HIV/AIDS of the Americas. However, the epidemic may soon be facing its end, thanks to a recent development at The University of Texas at El Paso’s Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC).
Igor C. Almeida, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences, has developed a fully protective vaccine against the parasite that causes the disease – Trypanosoma cruzi or T. cruzi.
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