Oral immunization with a dam mutant of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis protects against plague

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1919-1926

  Taylor, Victoria L ^a   Titball, Richard W ^a,b   Oyston, Petra C F ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; BACTERIAL DNA; BILE SALT; DNA ADENINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PLAGUE VACCINE;

ACTIVE IMMUNIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA ISOLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETHAL DOSE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; WILD TYPE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

2-AMINOPURINE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLAGUE; SITE-SPECIFIC DNA-METHYLTRANSFERASE (ADENINE-SPECIFIC); SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 21344442880     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27959-0     Document Type: Article

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