Protective responses against experimental Mycobacterium leprae infection in mice induced by recombinant Bacillus Calmette-Guérin over-producing three putative protective antigen candidates

Vaccine

Volumn 19, Issue 15-16, 2001, Pages 1906-1910

  Ohara, Naoya ^a   Matsuoka, Masanori ^b   Nomaguchi, Hiroko ^b   Naito, Mariko ^a   Yamada, Takeshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ag85; BCG; Leprosy; Recombinant; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BCG VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FOOT PAD; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LEPROSY; MALE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BCG VACCINE; DNA PRIMERS; LEPROSY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; PLASMIDS; SPLEEN; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0035961592     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(00)00439-4     Document Type: Article

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