Transmission-Blocking Vaccines: Focus on Anti-Vector Vaccines against Tick-Borne Diseases

Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 169-179

  Neelakanta, Girish ^a   Sultana, Hameeda ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Anti vector vaccine; Dermacentor; Haemaphysalis; Ixodes; Ornithodoros species; Rhipicephalus; Transmission blocking vaccine

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ANIMAL; GENE VECTOR; HUMAN; TICK; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS; VACCINES;

EID: 84939979096     PISSN: 0004069X     EISSN: 16614917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00005-014-0324-8     Document Type: Review

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