Peptide immunization as an adjuvant to chemotherapy in mice challenged intratracheally with virulent yeast cells of Paracoccidioides brasiliensis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2814-2819

  Marques, A F ^a   Da Silva, M B ^a   Juliano, M A P ^b   Travassos, L R ^b   Taborda, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; BAC SULFITRIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; FREUND ADJUVANT; FUNGUS VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 43; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; ITRACONAZOLE; PEPTIDE P10; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG POTENTIATION; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PEPTIDES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33746925268     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00220-06     Document Type: Article

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