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New Vaccine to Offer Treatment for Acne

New vaccine to offer treatment for acne on Business Standard. Do you often suffer from acne? Take heart, a potential vaccine that targets the bacterial toxins may soon be on the anvil, say researchers.<br>

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New Vaccine to Offer Treatment for Acne

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  1. New vaccine to offer treatment for acne Do you often suffer from acne? Take heart, a potential vaccine that targets the bacterial toxins may soon be on the anvil, say researchers.

  2. Health News : Instead of invading pathogens, the new vaccine would be the first to target bacteria already in human skin. The researchers demonstrated that antibodies to a toxin secreted from bacteria in acne vulgaris can reduce inflammation in human acne lesions. "Once validated by a large-scale clinical trial, the potential impact of our findings is huge for the hundreds of millions of individuals suffering from acne vulgaris," explained lead investigator Chun-Ming Huang, from the University of California-San Diego, US. An acne vaccination could circumvent potential adverse effects of topical or systemic retinoids and antibiotics, the Current treatment options. They found that Christie-Atkins-Munch-Peterson (CAMP) factor - a toxin secreted from the Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) bacteria, can induce inflammatory responses. Keep Reading: BS

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