Induction of cross-serovar protection against genital chlamydial infection by a targeted multisubunit vaccination approach

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1537-1544

  Li, Weidang ^a   Guentzel, M Neal ^a   Seshu, J ^a   Zhong, Guangming ^b   Murthy, Ashlesh K ^a   Arulanandam, Bernard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; RECOMBINANT CHLAMYDIAL PROTEASE LIKE ACTIVITY FACTOR; RECOMBINANT INCLUSION MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; RECOMBINANT MAJOR OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TARGETING; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; VACCINATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA MURIDARUM; CROSS REACTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOPEPTIDASES; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-12; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; OVIDUCTS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; VACCINATION; VACCINES, SUBUNIT;

EID: 38049088066     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00274-07     Document Type: Article

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