Optimization of plasmid maintenance in the attenuated live vector vaccine strain Salmonella typhi CVD 908-htrA

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 6424-6433

  Galen, James E ^a,b   Nair, Jay ^a,c   Wang, Jin Yuang ^a   Wasserman, Steven S ^a   Tanner, Michael K ^a,d   Sztein, Marcelo B ^a   Levine, Myron M ^a,b  

^a Division of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIVE VACCINE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STABILITY; R FACTOR; SALMONELLA TYPHI;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN; SALMONELLA TYPHI; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0032699918     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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