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The future of foot-and-mouth disease control: new test makes vaccines an option

17 June 2008

Researchers at the CSIRO’s Australian Animal Health Laboratory have developed a new test for foot-and-mouth disease that involves no infectious viral material and can differentiate between infected and vaccinated animals. This ‘DIVA’ test could transform how foot-and-mouth disease is controlled in future, because it’s so inexpensive and does not require infectious virus to produce the [...]

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New vaccine concept applied to HIV vaccine

6 May 1999

Australian Breakthrough promises vaccines for ‘difficult’ diseases
Scientists all over the world have been battling with the problem of HIVvaccines for almost a decade. But now, a new “polytope” technology from the CRC for Vaccine Technology is being applied to HIV and many other diseases..

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New generation of vaccines a step closer

10 May 1998

A new generation of vaccines is closer, thanks to research work by a young Melbourne scientist on DNA vaccines.

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