Bioinformatics and multiepitope DNA immunization to design rational snake antivenom (PLoS Medicine (2006) 3:6 doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030184);Bioinformatics and multiepitope DNA immunization to design rational snake antivenom

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0832-0844

  Wagstaff, Simon C ^a   Laing, Gavin D ^a   Theakston, R David G ^a   Papaspyridis, Christina ^a   Harrison, Robert A ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; EPITOPE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEIN HEMORRHAGINS; PROTEIN SNAKE VENOM METALLOPROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTISERUM; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; VENOM ANTISERUM; VIPER VENOM;

AFRICA; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG DESIGN; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; SNAKE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYMOLOGY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKEBITE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VIPERIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROSS REACTIONS; DATABASES, GENETIC; DRUG DESIGN; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNIZATION, PASSIVE; MALE; METALLOPROTEASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE BITES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 33745592501     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050209     Document Type: Erratum

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