Potentiality of Mushrooms as Edible Vaccines

Vaccines have long been used globally as preventive and therapeutic agents against various diseases. Global necessity of coseffective, edible and functional food based vaccine development has led the vaccine scientists search for multiple agents that would act either directly as vaccine or as vaccine adjuvant. In this article, the potentiality of edible and medicinal mushrooms or mushroom bio-components’ as vaccine adjuvants or as direct edible vaccines have critically been reviewed. Outcomes of the present article would be of immense importance to the immunologists, vaccine scientists and health-care professionals and policy makers worldwide.