Biophysical and antigenic characterization of gonococcal protein I incorporated into liposomes

Vaccine

Volumn 15, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1641-1651

  Parmar, Manjeet M ^a   Blake, Milan S ^b   Madden, Thomas D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b North American Vaccine Inc   (United States)

^c Northern Lipids Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Por proteoliposomes; Subunit vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; LIPOSOME; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; GONORRHEA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOLIPOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LIPOSOMES; MICE; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PORINS; RABBITS;

EID: 0030863063     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(97)00082-0     Document Type: Article

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