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Machine learning-driven identification of serotype-independent pneumococcal vaccine candidates using samples from human infection challenge studies

2025-09-17 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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Identifying conserved, immunogenic proteins that confer protection against Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation could enable development of serotype-independent vaccines. We analysed baseline samples from 86 healthy adults experimentally challenged with pneumococcal serotypes 6B or 15B to investigate whether immune responses to 75 universally expressed pneumococcal proteins associated with protection against colonisation. We measured serum IgG using a novel Luminex assay and cytokine responses...

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