Schistosoma japonicum triose-phosphate isomerase plasmid DNA vaccine protects pigs against challenge infection

Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 67-71

  Zhu, Y ^a   Si, J ^a   Harn, D A ^b   Xu, M ^a   Ren, J ^a   Yu, C ^a   Liang, Y ^a   Yin, X ^a   He, W ^a   Cao, G ^a  

^a JIANGSU INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Pigs; Plasmid DNA vaccine; Schistosoma japonicum; Triose phosphate isomerase

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; INTERLEUKIN 12; PLASMID DNA; SCHISTOSOMA VACCINE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; IMMUNIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SWINE; TREMATODIASIS; TUMOR VOLUME; VACCINATION; WORM EGG;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INTERLEUKIN-12; LIVER; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PLASMIDS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SWINE; TRIOSE-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; VACCINES, DNA;

ANIMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 30144445625     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005008644     Document Type: Article

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