Cloning, expression and evaluation of a recombinant sub-unit vaccine against Clostridium botulinum type F toxin

Vaccine

Volumn 19, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 288-297

  Holley, Jane L ^a   Elmore, Mike ^b   Mauchline, Margaret ^b   Minton, Nigel ^b   Titball, Richard W ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Botulinum; FHc subunit; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM ANTISERUM; BOTULINUM TOXIN; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BOTULISM; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0034666747     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(00)00155-9     Document Type: Article

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