Multicomponent DNA vaccine-encoding Toxoplasma gondii GRA1 and SAG1 primes: Anti-Toxoplasma immune response in mice

Parasitology Research

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2001-2009

  Wu, Xiao Nan ^a   Lin, Jie ^a,b   Lin, Xu ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Chen, Zhong Long ^a   Lin, Jian Yin ^a  

^a FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fujian Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRA1 DNA VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERLEUKIN 2; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; PLASMA PROTEIN; SAG1 DNA VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION CONTROL; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROVOCATION TEST; SURVIVAL TIME; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CD4-CD8 RATIO; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERFERON-GAMMA; INTERLEUKIN-2; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, ANIMAL; VACCINES, DNA;

MUS; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84868107915     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-3047-y     Document Type: Article

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