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Duke Health leads its first clinical trial testing a new universal flu vaccine

Duke Health is leading its first clinical trial under a large federal initiative to develop a new-generation flu vaccine. The phase 1 clinical trial, which launched last month, is testing the safety of a vaccine...

27 May, 2023

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Diagnosing infectious diseases at the point-of-care

A major problem with current testing for infectious diseases in Africa is that it focuses on individual diseases and cannot reliably discriminate between them. Since most infectious diseases have the same feverish...

30 March, 2015

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IDSA report calls for improved, rapid diagnostic testing

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has called for better diagnostics for infectious diseases, outlining goals that require collaborated efforts between Congress, regulatory bodies, industry, professional...

14 November, 2013

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