A DNA vaccine encoding lumazine synthase from Brucella abortus induces protective immunity in BALB/c mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 2507-2511

  Velikovsky, Carlos A ^a   Cassataro, Juliana ^a   Giambartolomei, Guillermo H ^a   Goldbaum, Fernando A ^a   Estein, Silvia ^a   Bowden, Raul A ^a   Bruno, Laura ^a   Fossati, Carlos A ^a   Spitz, Moisés ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; LUMAZINE SYNTHASE; PLASMID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLA VACCINE; BRUCELLOSIS; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TH1 CELLS; VACCINES, DNA; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 0036121919     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.5.2507-2511.2002     Document Type: Article

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