Progress and pitfalls in Shigella vaccine research

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 245-255

  Barry, Eileen M ^a   Pasetti, Marcela F ^a   Sztein, Marcelo B ^a   Fasano, Alessio ^b   Kotloff, Karen L ^a   Levine, Myron M ^a  

^a University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CVD 1204; CVD 1208; ENTEROTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; INVAPLEX; INVASION PLASMID ANTIGEN PROTEIN; LIVE VACCINE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PSEUDOMONAS EXOPROTEIN A; SC 602; SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SHIGELLA ENTEROTOXIN 1; SHIGELLA ENTEROTOXIN 2; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI 2A LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE CONJUGATE VACCINE; SHIGELLA SONNEI CONJUGATE VACCINE; SHIGELLA VACCINE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; VACCINATION; VACCINE PRODUCTION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; HUMANS; RESEARCH SUPPORT AS TOPIC; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA VACCINES;

EID: 84876419098     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.12     Document Type: Review

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