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SUBMITTER: Moustafa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3428394 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moustafa Moustafa M Aronoff George R GR Chandran Chandra C Hartzel Jonathan S JS Smugar Steven S SS Galphin Claude M CM Mailloux Lionel U LU Brown Elizabeth E Dinubile Mark J MJ Kartsonis Nicholas A NA Guris Dalya D
Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI 20120725 9
Bacteremia is the second leading cause of death in patients with end-stage renal disease who are on hemodialysis. A vaccine eliciting long-term immune responses against Staphylococcus aureus in patients on chronic hemodialysis may reduce the incidence of bacteremia and its complications in these patients. V710 is a vaccine containing iron surface determinant B (IsdB), a highly conserved S. aureus surface protein, which has been shown to be immunogenic in healthy subjects. In this blinded phase I ...[more]