Stabilization of a plasmid coding for a heterologous antigen in Salmonella enterica serotype typhi vaccine strain CVD908-htrA by using site-specific recombination

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 4383-4386

  Stephens, Jonathan C ^a,c   Darsley, Michael J ^a,d   Turner, Arthur K ^a,b  

^a Acambis   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ACE BioSciences AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALMONELLOSIS VACCINE;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, HETEROPHILE; GENETIC VECTORS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLA VACCINES; VACCINES, ATTENUATED;

EID: 33745586791     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00429-06     Document Type: Article

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