Use of a Th1 stimulator adjuvant for vaccination against Neospora caninum infection in the pregnant mouse model

Pathogens

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 193-208

  Monney, Thierry ^a   Grandgirard, Denis ^a   Leib, Stephen L ^a,b   Hemphill, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SPIEZ LABORATORY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abortion; Cytokines; Mouse model; Neospora caninum; Pregnancy; Recombinant antigen; Vaccination; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 4; NCMIC3 1 R PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DNA EXTRACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NEOSPOROSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYZOITE; TH1 CELL; VACCINATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84899083446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20760817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/pathogens2020193     Document Type: Article

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