DNA sequences encoding CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell epitopes are important for efficient protective immunity induced by DNA vaccination with a Trypanosoma cruzi gene

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 5477-5486

  Fujimura, A E ^a   Kinoshita, S S ^a   Pereira Chioccola, V L ^a   Rodrigues, M M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; IMMUNOGENICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHAGAS DISEASE; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEURAMINIDASE; PLASMIDS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VACCINATION; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 0034872007     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.9.5477-5486.2001     Document Type: Article

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