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Urinary infections – a vaccine soon to be available?
One in every two women will, at least once in their life, suffer from a urinary infection.
A far from pleasant experience… and although it can be successfully treated with antibiotics, wouldn’t it be better to avoid it altogether? And now there seems to be a promising vaccine that may do just that.
It targets Escherichia coli, the bacteria responsible for the majority of these infections. In fact, six candidate vaccines have been developed by a team at the University of Michigan. Administered nasally to mice, three of these vaccines produced good results. Antibodies specific to the infection were secreted and the quantity of bacteria present in the bladder was heavily reduced.
If this effectiveness is confirmed, it will still mean waiting a few years ... The team running the project is looking for clinical research partners and once it has found them, they will be able to start trials on humans.
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