A prime-boost strategy using the novel vaccine candidate, LemA, protects hamsters against leptospirosis

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 747-752

  Hartwig, Daiane D ^a   Forster, Karine M ^a   Oliveira, Thaís L ^a   Amaral, Marta ^a   McBride, Alan J A ^a,b   Dellagostina, Odir A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; LEMA PROTIEN; LEPTOSPIROSIS VACCINE; RECOMBINANT VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFICACY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; CRICETINAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VACCINATION; VACCINES, DNA; VACCINES, SUBUNIT; VACCINES, SYNTHETIC;

EID: 84876826912     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00034-13     Document Type: Article

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