Gonorrhoea vaccine
NZPA Pittsburgh A new vaccine against gonorrhoea has been developed by University of Pittsburgh scientists. Dr Charles C. Brinton said the vaccine could reduce a person’s chances of getting gonorrhoea from the present rate of 30 per cent per coirtact to about one per cent. The vaccine’s main ingredient is a series of hairlike appendages called pili, which gonorrhoea bacteria I use to move themselves over ! moist surfaces and stick to tissues. 1 When the pili are injected into men and women, Dr ißriiton said, antibodies are i formed that make them inactive. The antibodies confer I immunity against go- ' norrhoea. In initial phases of the research. Dr Brinton reported success in laboratory tests in which he and several colleagues were injected with the venerea] disease.
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Press, 6 July 1977, Page 16
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