Detoxification of the Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 4615-4619

  Manetti, Roberto ^a   Massari, Paola ^a   Marchetti, Marta ^a   Magagnoli, Claudia ^a   Nuti, Sandra ^a   Lupetti, Pietro ^a   Ghiara, Paolo ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^a   Telford, John L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; CYTOTOXIN; FORMALDEHYDE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; TOXOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELA CELL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STOMACH EPITHELIUM; VACCINATION;

EID: 0030831941     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.11.4615-4619.1997     Document Type: Article

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