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Characterization and immunogenicity of an apxIA mutant of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae.
Veterinary microbiology - 20 Dec 2006
Xu Fuzhou, Chen Xiaoling, Shi Aihua, Yang Bing, Wang Jinluo, Li Yongqing, Guo Xin, Blackall P J, Yang Hanchun
Abstract excerpt
Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae is the aetiological agent of porcine pleuropneumonia, a highly contagious and often fatal disease. A candidate live vaccine strain, potentially capable of cross-serovar protection, was constructed by deleting the section of the apxIA gene coding for the C-terminal segment of ApxI toxin of the A. pleuropneumoniae serovar 10 reference strain (D13039) and inserting a chloramphenicol...
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