Variability of outer membrane protein P1 and its evaluation as a vaccine candidate against experimental otitis media due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae: An unambiguous, multifaceted approach

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 4505-4517

  Bolduc, Gilles R ^a,c   Bouchet, Valérie ^c   Jiang, Ru Zhang ^b,c   Geisselsoder, Janet ^c   Truong Bolduc, Que Chi ^c   Rice, Peter A ^c   Pelton, Stephen I ^c   Goldstein, Richard ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHINCHILLA; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OTITIS MEDIA; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN VARIANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CHINCHILLA; DRUG DESIGN; EAR, MIDDLE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OTITIS MEDIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0033915313     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.8.4505-4517.2000     Document Type: Article

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