By deleting a key component in a bacterium that causes a blinding infection called trachoma, scientists have developed a vaccine that might protect against the disease. Monkeys given the experimental vaccine become partially or totally immune to Chlamydia trachomatis, the microbe that causes the condition, researchers report online October 10 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
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