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Tag: Vaccination

Projects

4 March 2019

A needle-prick to protect against insect bites

In persons with a severe allergy to bee or wasp venom, the bite of just one insect can even be fatal when it triggers acute respiratory distress and circulatory failure. A project funded by the FWF is working on vaccines that contain components of the insect venom in an attenuated form with significantly fewer side […] Continue reading “A needle-prick to protect against insect bites”

Projects

5 March 2018

When to immunise if blood stem cells are being transplanted?

After undergoing bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, patients experience a loss of vaccine protection. In a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, the physician Christina Forstner is investigating how such patients respond to TBE vaccination and at what point this should be renewed. Continue reading “When to immunise if blood stem cells are being transplanted?”

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