Immune responses to recombinant pneumococcal PsaA antigen delivered by a live attenuated Salmonella vaccine

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3258-3271

  Wang, Shifeng ^a,b   Li, Yuhua ^a   Shi, Huoying ^a   Scarpellini, Giorgio ^a,b   Torres Escobar, Ascencion ^a   Roland, Kenneth L ^a   Curtiss III, Roy ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIVE VACCINE; PSAA ANTIGEN; RECOMBINANT ANTIGEN; SALMONELLOSIS VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; LUNG HOMOGENATE; MOUSE; NASAL LAVAGE; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION; VAGINAL LAVAGE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIPOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; SALMONELLA VACCINES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 77953934041     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.00176-10     Document Type: Article

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