Suppose You Are a Graduate Student Working in a Research

Multiple Choice

Suppose you are a graduate student working in a research laboratory that focuses on the development of new vaccines.Your faculty mentor asks you to play a key role in the development of a vaccine for a novel pathogen by using reverse vaccinology.Your project design should involve:

A) screening the genome of the pathogen to identify genes that code for potential vaccine targets.
B) culturing the organism, isolating proteins that could serve as vaccine antigens, and cloning the genes for those proteins.
C) developing a universal vaccine that could provide broad protection against a group of related organisms.
D) using a prime-boost strategy to stimulate an effective immune response.