Achilles Heel of Dengue Virus Identified: Target for Future Vaccines

ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2012) — A team of scientists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University have pinpointed the region on dengue virus that is neutralized in people who overcome infection with the deadly pathogen. The results challenge the current state of dengue vaccine research, which is based on studies in mice and targets a different region of the virus.