Identification and characterization of OmpA-like proteins as novel vaccine candidates for Leptospirosis

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2277-2283

  Yan, Weiwei ^a   Faisal, Syed M ^a   McDonough, Sean P ^a   Chang, Chao Fu ^b   Pan, Ming Jeng ^b   Akey, Bruce ^a   Chang, Yung Fu ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CENTRAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hamster; Leptospira interrogans; Leptospiral OmpA like protein; Subunit vaccine

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL VACCINE; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUTATHIONE S TRANSFERASE TAG FUSION PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 4; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; PROTEIN LBP328; PROTEIN LP0056; PROTEIN LP0222; PROTEIN LP3615; PROTEIN LP3685; PROTEIN LP4337; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HAMSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROTYPE; SURVIVAL RATE; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CRICETINAE; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LIVER; LUNG; LYMPHOCYTES; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VACCINES, SUBUNIT; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 77049125464     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2009.12.071     Document Type: Article

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