Protection from murine cysticercosis by immunization with a parasite cysteine protease

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 12-13, 2006, Pages 2733-2735

  Baig, Salman ^a,c   Damian, Raymond T ^a   Morales Montor, Jorge ^a,b   Ghaleb, Amr ^a   Baghdadi, Amjed ^a   White Jr , A Clinton ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Neurocysticercosis; Taenia; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTICERCOSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FEMALE; IMMUNIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAENIA CRASSICEPS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; CYSTICERCOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; TAENIA SOLIUM; VACCINES, SUBUNIT;

MURINAE; TAENIA; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 33750622641     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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