Resistance to Coccidioides immitis in mice after immunization with recombinant protein or a DNA vaccine of a proline-rich antigen

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2935-2940

  Abuodeh, Raed O ^a   Shubitz, Lisa F ^a   Siegel, Erin ^a   Snyder, Shannon ^a   Peng, Tao ^a   Orsborn, Kris I ^a   Brummer, Elmer ^b   Stevens, David A ^b   Galgiani, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; PROLINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0033048884     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.6.2935-2940.1999     Document Type: Article

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