New vaccine protects from widespread, costly infection, mice study shows

A newly developed experimental vaccine was more than eighty percent effective in protecting mice from succumbing to Staphylococcus aureus infection. S. aureus causes more than 30,000 deaths from hospital-acquired infections annually in the US, costing the healthcare system $10 billion. The research is published this week in Infection and Immunity, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
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