Additive effect of rPb27 immunization and chemotherapy in experimental paracoccidioidomycosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Fernandes, Viviane C ^a   Martins, Estefânia M N ^a   Boeloni, Jankerle N ^a   Coitinho, Juliana B ^a   Serakides, Rogéria ^a   Goes, Alfredo M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM HYDROXIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGUS VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; RPB27; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENTIATION; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FUNGAL STRAIN; IMMUNIZATION; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PLASMID; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RECURRENT DISEASE; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SPLEEN; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TRACHEA;

FUNGI; MUS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLONY-FORMING UNITS ASSAY; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL VACCINES; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPLEEN; TRACHEA;

EID: 79952504416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017885     Document Type: Article

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