Smallpox

Genetic variants associated with smallpox vaccine immune response heterogeneity

This project focuses on identifying individual risk factors, enlarging the understanding of immune mechanisms, and defining biomarkers of risk and immunity that can assist in optimizing the development of new vaccines, diagnostic tests and therapeutics to protect humans from smallpox.

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Learn about diagnosis and treatment of smallpox.