Three approaches to animal and public health
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Emerging pathogen and disease detection |
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Development and deployment of life-saving vaccines |
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Control of disease transmission from animals to humans |
Help for animals and humans alike.
In the process of learning about organisms that infect animals, WSU researchers are inventing techniques that aid the study of human diseases as well. Immunologist Wendy Brown developed a method for rapidly screening pathogen proteins for their ability to prompt an immune response in a host. The method can help researchers working on any infectious disease quickly identify proteins that are good candidates for a vaccine against the disease.