Recent advances in vaccinology.
Major advances in vaccinology in the past year include the experimental use of vaccination for diseases such as Alzheimer's and stroke, a demonstration of the power of genomic approaches for target antigen identification, hopeful results in a clinical trial for a therapeutic cancer vaccine, and the successful mass immunisation of children with meningococcal conjugate vaccine in the UK.
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Division of Genomic Medicine, University of Sheffield Medical School, UK. a.w.heath@shef.ac.uk
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