Construction and vaccine potential of acapsular mutants of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae: Use of excision of Tn916 to inactivate a target gene

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3250-3254

  Shimoji, Yoshihiro ^a   Mori, Yasuyuki ^a   Sekizaki, Tsutomu ^a   Shibahara, Tomoyuki ^a   Yokomizo, Yuichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; FEMALE; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNIZATION; LD 50; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

ERYSIPELOTHRIX RHUSIOPATHIAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0031840825     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.7.3250-3254.1998     Document Type: Article

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