New Lis­te­ria fears spot­light­ed as Aduro’s CRS-207 is slapped with par­tial hold

Nag­ging fears that Aduro Biotech’s can­cer vac­cine CRS-207 could trig­ger se­ri­ous Lis­te­ria in­fec­tions mush­roomed in­to a se­vere set­back on Mon­day morn­ing as the biotech re­port­ed that it had to halt en­roll­ment in all of its clin­i­cal stud­ies us­ing that tech­nol­o­gy. The par­tial hold was in­sti­tut­ed by the FDA af­ter a pa­tient test­ed pos­i­tive for Lis­te­ria, which is sus­pect­ed to be CRS-207, Aduro’s lead can­cer vac­cine.

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