Plastids: The green frontiers for vaccine production

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue NOVEMBER, 2015, Pages

  Waheed, Mohammad T ^a   Ismail, Hammad ^a   Gottschamel, Johanna ^b   Mirza, Bushra ^a   Lössl, Andreas G ^c,d  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biopharmaceuticals; Cost effective vaccines; Developing countries; Infectious diseases; Molecular farming; Plant based vaccines; Plastids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947572444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.01005     Document Type: Review

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