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Volume 6 Issue 3 (March, 2018)

Review Articles

Periodontal Vaccine – A Review
Saikat Roy Chowdhury, Arijit Sarkar, Rana Praween Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Dipti Saxena, Bazro Deb Barman

Vaccination is a process that induces specific immune resistance to a bacterial or viral infection. Edward Jenner developed and established the principle of vaccination using the cross protection conferred by cowpox virus, which is non pathogenic in humans. With the rapid growth of microbial genome sequencing and bioinformatics analysis tools we have the potential to examine all the genes and proteins from any human pathogen. This technique has the capability to provide us with new targets for anti-microbial drugs and vaccines. However, to realize this potential new bioinformatics and experimental approaches to select these targets from the myriad of available candidates are required. Key words: Immune response, periodontal vaccine, periodontitis.

 
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