Multivalent vaccine for lymphatic filariasis

Procedia in Vaccinology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 12-18

  Samykutty, Abhilash ^a   Dakshinamoorthy, Gajalakshmi ^a   Kalyanasundaram, Ramaswamy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

BmALT 2; BmHSP; Brugia malayi; Mouse; Multivalent vaccine

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANT LARVAL TRANSCRIPT 2 ANTIGEN; DNA VACCINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 4; PARASITE ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; BRUGIAN FILARIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOKINE RESPONSE; DNA IMMUNIZATION; DRUG FORMULATION; LARVAL STAGE; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL;

EID: 78649897319     PISSN: 1877282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.provac.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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