Polyvalent vaccination against hepatitis B surface and core antigen using a dicistronic expression plasmid

Vaccine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-360

  Wild, Jens ^a   Grüner, Beate ^a   Metzger, Karin ^a   Kuhröber, Andreas ^a   Pudollek, Hans Peter ^a   Hauser, Hansjörg ^b   Schirmbeck, Reinhold ^a   Reimann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MANUFACTURE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; VACCINATION;

EID: 0032007493     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(97)80913-9     Document Type: Article

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