The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people ...

Led by UVIC microbiologist Caroline Cameron, a team is developing a vaccine for syphilis, using a chain of amino acids ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the earliest warning signs of the primary stage of syphilis appear as sores at ...

Because of that fragility, researchers have been limited in their ability to develop new syphilis diagnostics, treatments, and preventive measures such as vaccines. Effective treatments are ...

We foresee that a candidate vaccine for syphilis will be under evaluation in the next 10 years. It is unlikely that we will ever eradicate syphilis infection but we will have learnt much from this ...

He eventually surprised colleagues by leaving the potentially profitable field of serology (developing antitoxins and vaccines that ... the one which causes syphilis. At that time, syphilis ...

Another important area of research has been the development of a tri-antigen vaccine aimed at preventing syphilis. This vaccine has shown promise in animal models by significantly reducing the ...

However, you might be shocked to learn one of the most prevalent diagnoses is syphilis. Famously known as “venereal disease,” syphilis is usually associated with time periods like Medieval ...

Efforts to develop a safe and effective syphilis vaccine have been hindered by our lack of knowledge of the relative importance of humoral and cellular immunity.