Protection against lethal Neospora caninum infection in mice induced by heterologous vaccination with a mic1 mic3 knockout Toxoplasma gondii strain

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 651-660

  Penarete Vargas, Diana Marcela ^a   Mévélec, Marie Noelle ^a   Dion, Sarah ^a   Sèche, Edouard ^b   Dimier Poisson, Isabelle ^a   Fandeur, Thierry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b UFR de Pharmacie   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LIVE VACCINE; PROTOZOAL VACCINE; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; NEOSPORA CANINUM; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYZOITE; TH1 CELL; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; COCCIDIOSIS; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MICE; NEOSPORA; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; TOXOPLASMA; VACCINATION; VACCINES, ATTENUATED;

EID: 76749130246     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00703-09     Document Type: Article

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