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Article: Fed: Scientists working on house dust mite vaccine
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- March 6, 2005
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AAP General News (Australia)
03-06-2005
Fed: Scientists working on house dust mite vaccine
By Janelle Miles, National Medical Correspondent
BRISBANE, March 6 AAP - Australian scientists are working on developing a vaccine to
desensitise people against house dust mites, a major culprit in aggravating asthma.
Geneticist Paul Watt, of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Western
Australia, said a vaccine made from peptides found in ancient bacterial proteins was showing
promise in mice although the experiments were ongoing.
He said the potential vaccine was based on naturally-occurring peptides - dubbed phylomers
by the scientists - which were similar in shape to the dust ...