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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will test the new vaccine during the next year to prove that it is safe enough and works well enough to administer.
The vaccine developed by Kasper prompts the mothers' immune systems to send antibodies across the placenta and provide newborns with strep protection for a few months until the babies' own immune systems begin functioning.
Kasper created the vaccine using the sugar coating that encapsulates Group B strep, enabling the body to recognize the bacteria without developing the disease.
The first attempt at the vaccine proved safe but was too weak to prevent strep. Kasper then added a version of the tetanus vaccine to his initial strep vaccine to boost its effectiveness.
In a study in this month's Journal of Clinical Investigation, Kasper gave 100 Houston women who were not pregnant either the strengthened vaccine or the old, weaker one.