VacciMonitor (Aug 2009)

Nueva generación de vacunas antimeningococica basadas en vesículas de membrana externa

  • Jan Poolman,
  • Philippe Denoël ,
  • Nathalie Devos ,
  • Christiane Feron,
  • Karine Goraj,
  • Patricia Momin,
  • Christine Tans,
  • Vincent Weynants

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 2
pp. 66 – 68

Abstract

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With the development of conjugate vaccines, Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B (MenB) will remain the major cause of meningitis, as it is not covered by vaccination. In order to develop a vaccine able to confer a broad cross-protection against invasive MenB strains, we have developed a new generation of outer-membrane vesicles (OMVs) based on the over-expression of well conserved minor outer membrane proteins (OMPs) and the presence of high percentage of detoxified LOS.

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