Protective immunity induced by a DNA vaccine-encoding Toxoplasma gondii microneme protein 11 against acute toxoplasmosis in BALB/c mice

Parasitology Research

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2871-2877

  Tao, Qing ^a   Fang, Rui ^a   Zhang, Weichao ^a   Wang, Yifan ^a   Cheng, Jianxi ^a   Li, Yalin ^a   Fang, Kun ^a   Khan, Muhammad Kasib ^a   Hu, Min ^a   Zhou, Yanqin ^a   Zhao, Junlong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MICRONEME PROTEIN 11 VACCINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PLASMID VECTOR; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII VACCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TACHYZOITE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84881134026     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-013-3458-4     Document Type: Article

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