Generation of Yersinia pestis Attenuated Strains by Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis in Search of Novel Vaccine Candidates

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 908-915

  Flashner, Yehuda ^a   Mamroud, Emanuelle ^a   Tidhar, Avital ^a   Ber, Raphael ^a   Aftalion, Moshe ^a   Gur, David ^a   Lazar, Shirley ^a   Zvi, Anat ^a   Bino, Tamar ^a   Ariel, Naomi ^a   Velan, Baruch ^a   Shafferman, Avigdor ^a   Cohen, Sara ^a  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; KANAMYCIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LD 50; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VACCINATION; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PLAGUE VACCINE; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 10744225210     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.2.908-915.2004     Document Type: Article

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