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Conditional lethality yields a new vaccine strain of Listeria monocytogenes for the induction of cell-mediated immunity.
Infection and immunity - 1 Aug 2005
Li Zhongxia, Zhao Xinyan, Higgins Darren E, Frankel Fred R
Abstract excerpt
Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive intracellular pathogen that can enter phagocytic and nonphagocytic cells and colonize their cytosols. Taking advantage of this property to generate an intracellular vaccine delivery vector, we previously described a mutant strain of L. monocytogenes, Deltadal Deltadat, which is unable to synthesize cell wall by virtue of deletions in two genes (dal and dat) required for...
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