The future of plague vaccines: Hopes raised by a surrogate, live-attenuated recombinant vaccine candidate

Expert Review of Vaccines

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 659-661

  Rosenzweig, Jason A ^a   Chopra, Ashok K ^b,c  

^a TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

balanced lethal plasmids; F1; LcrV antigen; Salmonella typhimurium attenuated phoP Q mutant; Yersinia pestis vaccine

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN; LIVE VACCINE; PLAGUE VACCINE; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TERRORISM; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84864927784     PISSN: 14760584     EISSN: 17448395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erv.12.34     Document Type: Review

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