Attempts at a peptide vaccine against paracoccidioidomycosis, adjuvant to chemotherapy

Mycopathologia

Volumn 165, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 341-352

  Travassos, Luiz R ^a   Rodrigues, Elaine G ^a   Iwai, Leo K ^b   Taborda, Carlos P ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; gp43; P10; Paracoccidioides brasiliensis; Paracoccidioidomycosis; Peptide vaccine

Indexed keywords

43 KDA PROTEIN, PARACOCCIDIOIDES; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; FUNGUS VACCINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; REVIEW; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SYNTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGAL VACCINES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PEPTIDES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 42549131308     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-007-9056-1     Document Type: Review

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