African horsesickness virus VP7 sub-unit vaccine protects mice against a lethal, heterologous serotype challenge

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1611-1616

  Wade Evans, A M ^a,b   Pullen, L ^a   Hamblin, C ^a   O'Hara, R ^a   Burroughs, J N ^a   Mertens, P P C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; FREUND ADJUVANT; VIRUS VACCINE;

AFRICAN HORSE SICKNESS VIRUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; VIRUS TITRATION;

AFRICAN HORSESICKNESS VIRUS; ANIMALIA; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0030859124     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-7-1611     Document Type: Article

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