Therapeutic DNA vaccine encoding peptide P10 against experimental paracoccidioidomycosis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Rittner, Glauce M G ^a   Muñoz, Julián E ^a   Marques, Alexandre F ^a   Nosanchuk, Joshua D ^b   Taborda, Carlos P ^a   Travassos, Luiz R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; PEPTIDE P10; PEPTIDE VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; FUNGUS VACCINE; GLYCOPROTEIN; P10 PEPTIDE, PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERADICATION THERAPY; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL COUNT; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; DISEASE MODEL; GENE VECTOR; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PATHOLOGY; PLASMID;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNGAL VACCINES; GENETIC VECTORS; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PLASMIDS; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 84857840698     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001519     Document Type: Article

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