Assessment of the immune responses to Treponema pallidum Gpd DNA vaccine adjuvanted with IL-2 and chitosan nanoparticles before and after Treponema pallidum challenge in rabbits

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 174-180

  Zhao, FeiJun ^a   Zhang, XiaoHong ^a   Liu, ShuangQuan ^a   Zeng, TieBing ^a   Yu, Jian ^a   Gu, WeiMing ^b   Zhang, YueJun ^a   Chen, Xi ^c   Wu, YiMou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

^b Skin Diseases and STD Hospital   (China)

^c Hunan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

CS; Gpd; IL 2; membrane protein; nucleic acid vaccine; Treponema pallidum (Tp)

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 84873747145     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-012-4434-4     Document Type: Article

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