Hilleman’s Pioneering Shigella Vaccine Set For First Trials
Executive Summary
India’s Hilleman Laboratories, in partnership with a government agency, expects to start human trials this year with a pioneering multivalent vaccine to prevent shigellosis, a highly contagious bacterial diarrheal disease that is a major killer of children in low-income countries but has proven a difficult vaccine target.
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