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RESEARCH ARTICLE

New approaches to VLP-based vaccines

Alekhya Penumarthi A B and Peter M Smooker A C
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A School of Science, RMIT University
Bundoora, Vic. 3083, Australia

B Email: alekhya.penumarthi@rmit.edu.au

C Email: peter.smooker@rmit.edu.au

Microbiology Australia 38(2) 93-94 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA17038
Published: 24 March 2017

Abstract

Vaccination is a long and established field of research, and outputs from the research have saved countless millions of lives. The early vaccines were developed with scant regard for the immunological mechanisms at play, largely because they were unknown. We are now in a position to use our knowledge of immunology to rationally design vaccines. This article focusses on the use of virus-like particles (VLPs) as vaccines.


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