Immunization with adenoviral-vectored tick salivary gland proteins (SALPs) in a murine model of Lyme borreliosis

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 160-163

  Ullmann, A J ^a   Dolan, M C ^a   Sackal, C A ^a   Fikrig, E ^b   Piesman, J ^a   Zeidner, N S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Anti tick vaccine; Ixodes scapularis; Tick salivary proteins

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 2; ISAC PROTEIN; LYME DISEASE VACCINE; SALIVA PROTEIN; SALP15 PROTEIN; SALP25A PROTEIN; SALP25D PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BLADDER; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HEART; IMMUNOMODULATION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TH1 CELL;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; HEART; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICE; SALIVARY PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES; TICK INFESTATIONS; URINARY BLADDER; VACCINES;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; MUS; SALPIDA; SPIROCHAETALES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872600955     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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