DNA-based vaccination using Schistosoma japonicum (Asian blood-fluke) genes

Vaccine

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 846-848

  Waine, Gary J ^a   Yang, Wen ^a   Scott, Julie C ^a   McManus, Donald P ^a   Kalinna, Bernd H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nucleic acid vaccine; Paramyosin; Schistosoma japonicum

Indexed keywords

CALRETICULIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; NUCLEIC ACID; PARAMYOSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; BUFFALO; CERCARIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SWINE; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALRETICULIN; FEMALE; GENES, HELMINTH; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; TROPOMYOSIN; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0030811062     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(96)00258-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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