An affordable, accessible, and broadly protective vaccine is required to tackle the re-occurring bacterial meningococcal epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as an effective control of multi-drug resistant strains of gonococcus. Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) secreted from Gram-negative bacteria represent an attractive platform for antigen delivery to the immune system and therefore for development of multi-component vaccines. In this study, we describe the generation of modified OMVs (mOMVs) from commensal biosafety-level 1 (BSL-1) Neisseria cinerea ATCC® 14685, which is phylogenetically close to the pathogenic bacteria Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
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December 2015
Purpose: Data regarding knee arthroplasty and lawsuit are scarce. With the expected increase in knee arthroplasty over the next 25 years, the number of claims might follow the same trend. Therefore, the most frequent causes of litigation after knee arthroplasty in France, and what is considered as malpractice by the expert, were determined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClaims in anesthesia and intensive care remains high, despite the reduction of morbidity and mortality associated with this activity. The absence of a national register makes it difficult to quantify. The Medical Committee of MACSF-Sou Medical Group, professional liability insurer of more than half of French physicians, provided us support.
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