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Immunomodulatory effects associated with a live vaccine against Leishmania major containing CpG oligodeoxynucleotides
17 Nov 2006
Abstract excerpt
The inoculation of live Leishmania major to produce a lesion that heals (leishmanization) is to date the only vaccine against cutaneous leishmaniasis that has proven effective in humans, but it still has an unacceptable frequency of large ulcerating lesions that are slow to heal or, in rare cases, non-healing. We have previously shown that C57BL/6 mice vaccinated intradermally with 10(4) L. major/50 microg CpG...
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