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Efficacy of non-toxic deletion mutants of protective antigen from Bacillus anthracis.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 1 Aug 2005
Rhie Gi-eun, Park Young-Mia, Han Ji-Sun, Yu Jae-Yon, Seong Won-Keun, Oh Hee-Bok
Abstract excerpt
Current human anthrax vaccines available in the United States and Europe consist of alum-precipitated supernatant material from cultures of a toxigenic, nonencapsulated strain of Bacillus anthracis. The major component of human anthrax vaccine that confers protection is protective antigen (PA). A second-generation human vaccine using the recombinant PA (rPA) is being developed. In this study, to prevent the...
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