The Power of Adjuvants - Boosting our Best Shot

The current issue of Nature Medicine has an informative article by Charlotte Schubert, senior editor for News and Views on the power of adjuvants in vaccines including H1N1.

Abstract: Vaccines work by training the immune system to target pathogens, but many types of shots need added substances called adjuvants to elicit a robust response. Despite the power of adjuvants, only one, called alum, is approved in the US. Charlotte Schubert looks at recent discoveries that could translate into a wider range of adjuvants and perhaps help provide future protection against diseases ranging from malaria to H1N1 'swine' flu.

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Reference:

1. Boosting our best shot, Charlotte Schubert, Nature Medicine 15, 984 - 988 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0909-984