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GPN Vaccines is a biotechnology company developing a vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) – the world’s foremost bacterial pathogen. S. pneumoniae is responsible for causing life-threatening pneumonia, bacteraemia and meningitis. Each year it causes 1-2 million deaths worldwide, killing more children than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
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