Argentine researchers take an important step towards developing a vaccine against swine brucellosis

Source and photo: CONICET Brucellosis is a disease caused by bacteria, which is transmitted from animals to humans and is a public health problem in Argentina. It has a great economic impact because it infects cattle, goats and pigs, and although vaccines are available to prevent it in cows and goats, they do not exist to be applied in pigs or in people. But now, researchers from CONICET of the Biochemical Research Institute of Buenos Aires (IIB…