Induction of antigen-specific antibodies in vaginal secretions by using a nontoxic mutant of heat-labile enterotoxin as a mucosal adjuvant

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 974-979

  Di Tommaso, Annalisa ^a   Saletti, Giulietta ^a   Pizza, Mariagrazia ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Dougan, Gordon ^b   Abrignani, Sergio ^a   Douce, Gill ^b   Teresa De Magistris, Maria ^a,c  

^a Instituto Ricerche Immunobiol Siena   (Italy)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IRIS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; LTK 63; OVALBUMIN; SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; VAGINA MUCOSA;

EID: 0030066516     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.3.974-979.1996     Document Type: Article

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