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Evaluation of the stability and immunogenicity of autoclaved and nonautoclaved preparations of a vaccine against American tegumentary leishmaniasis.
Vaccine - 5 Mar 1999
De Luca P M, Mayrink W, Alves C R, Coutinho S G, Oliveira M P, Bertho A L, Toledo V P, Costa C A, Genaro O, Mendonça S C
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This study was designed to evaluate the immunogenicity of autoclaved and nonautoclaved preparations of a vaccine composed of whole antigens from killed promastigotes of Leishmania amazonensis. Leishmanin skin-test (LST)-negative volunteers were immunized with either autoclaved or nonautoclaved vaccine preparations (32 and 36 subjects, respectively) that had been maintained at 4 degrees C for one year before the...
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