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A Probiotic-Based Oral Synthetic Vaccine Delivery System

Daniel González of the University of Texas at San Antonio in the U.S. will work to engineer a probiotic yeast into a strain that can deliver antigens directly to the intestinal mucosal immune system. This yeast strain could be developed into an oral vaccine delivery vehicle that can accommodate a wide variety vaccine candidates.

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