Approaches to vaccines against Orientia tsutsugamushi

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Valbuena, Gustavo ^a   Walker, David H ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Immunity; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; Vaccines

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL VACCINE; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; DNA VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; DISEASE CARRIER; HETEROLOGOUS IMMUNITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; SCRUB TYPHUS; VACCINATION; WAR; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; HISTORY; IMMUNOLOGY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PATHOGENICITY; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL VACCINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG DISCOVERY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PACIFIC ISLANDS; SCRUB TYPHUS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84881527515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2012.00170     Document Type: Review

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