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Current research and prospects of plague vaccine

  • WEI Dong ,
  • ZHAO Aihua ,
  • WANG Guozhi ,
  • XU Miao
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  • Division of Tuberculosis Vaccines and Allergen, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Health for Research on Quality and Standardization of Biotech Products, Beijing 102629, China

Received date: 2020-02-01

  Online published: 2020-06-25

Abstract

Plague is a category A infectious disease, which is highly infectious and pathogenic. Three great plague pandemics resulted in nearly 200 million deaths in human history. Prophylactic vaccination is an important method of disease prevention and control. In this review, we summarize the current advances in research and development of plague vaccines and provide a reference for the study of new vaccines.

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WEI Dong , ZHAO Aihua , WANG Guozhi , XU Miao . Current research and prospects of plague vaccine[J]. Journal of Microbes and Infections, 2020 , 15(3) : 135 -142 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-6184.2020.03.001

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