You have recently learned that the hospital that you work in isexperiencing a MRSA outbreak. You are told that the strain ispan-resistant, meaning that no antibiotics that we know of aregoing to work. There is a meeting among all of the healthprofessionals and scientists in the hospital one morning to discussany potential alternative therapies that could be used to combatthe bacterial infection. When the attending physician, who isgetting desperate, asks for any and all ideas to be broughtforward, you raise your hand. You remember what you learned in Dr.LeMieux’s class, and you think that there may be an alternative.You decide that you will devote the next few years to making avaccine to protect people against MRSA – a vaccine that isdesperately needed. 1) What will you need to know about thebacteria in order to design your vaccine?
2) What type of vaccine will you make and why?
3) Based on the type of vaccine you choose; how will you goabout making it? Please explain as much as you can hear about theprocess that you embark on.
