Advancing a multivalent 'Pan-anthelmintic' vaccine against soil-transmitted nematode infections

Expert Review of Vaccines

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 321-331

  Zhan, Bin ^a   Beaumier, Coreen M ^a   Briggs, Neima ^a,b   Jones, Kathryn M ^a   Keegan, Brian P ^a   Bottazzi, Maria Elena ^a   Hotez, Peter J ^a  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Trichuris trichiura

Indexed keywords

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PROTOZOAN VACCINES; SOIL; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 84894034533     PISSN: 14760584     EISSN: 17448395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14760584.2014.872035     Document Type: Review

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