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Construction and characterization of a live, attenuated aroA deletion mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa as a candidate intranasal vaccine.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 2002
Priebe Gregory P, Brinig Mary M, Hatano Kazue, Grout Martha, Coleman Fadie T, Pier Gerald B, Goldberg Joanna B
Abstract excerpt
Antibodies to the lipopolysaccharide O antigen of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mediate high-level immunity, but protective epitopes have proven to be poorly immunogenic, while nonprotective or minimally protective O-antigen epitopes often elicit the best immune responses. With the goal of developing a broadly protective P. aeruginosa vaccine, we used a gene replacement system based on the Flp recombinase to construct...
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