Development of Rickettsia prowazekii DNA vaccine: Cloning strategies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 757-764

  Coker, Christopher ^a   Majid, Mahreen ^a   Radulovic, Suzana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloning; DNA vaccine; Rickettsia prowazekii

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE;

CELL DIVISION; CLONING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNITY; MORTALITY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIOSIS; TYPHUS; VIRULENCE;

PHTHIRAPTERA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0038727980     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07456.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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