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Vaccine candidate for gonorrhea shows preclinical effectiveness

by University of Massachusetts Medical School A report in the journal mBio, published by the American Society for Microbiology, describes a prototype vaccine candidate for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection that affects men and women. Untreated, gonorrhea can cause infertility in women. “The global spread of multidrug-resistant strains of...