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Pfizer Awarded Grant to Evaluate Vaccine to Protect Newborns Against Group B Streptococcus Infection

October 19, 2016 8:00 AM EDT

Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help advance potential new vaccine that could provide protection from debilitating infections before and shortly after birth About 1 out of every 4 pregnant women carries group B Streptococcus bacteria1 which could be passed from mother to baby during labor and birth A severe, aggressive and potentially deadly infection, group B Streptococcus is a leading cause of life-threatening neonatal sepsis and meningitis2

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:... More