Probiotic, Live Vaccine Both Curb Cholera

New probiotic and vaccine-based interventions have been shown to suppress cholera in animal models, indicated two research articles, both of which appeared June 13 in the journal Science Translational Medicine . The probiotic intervention, developed by a team of scientists based at MIT, consists of a mix of natural and engineered Lactococcus bacteria. The vaccine-based intervention, developed by a team of scientists based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BMH) and the Howard Hughes Medical