Genome Mining and Reverse Vaccinology

Handbook of Meningococcal Disease: Infection Biology, Vaccination, Clinical Management

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 391-402

  Leuzzi, Rosanna ^a   Savino, Silvana ^a   Pizza, Mariagrazia ^a   Rappuoli, Rino ^a  

^a CHIRON VACCINES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antigen screening; Candidate antigen prediction; Genome mining and reverse vaccinology; Impact of genomics on vaccine design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889483068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/3527608508.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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