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Virulence and antigenicity of the szp-gene deleted Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus mutant in mice.
Vaccine - 1 Jan 2009
Hong-Jie Fan, Fu-yu Tang, Ying Mao, Cheng-ping Lu
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Streptococcus equi ssp. zooepidemicus (SEZ) causes serious disease in pigs. M-like protein (SzP) of SEZ is a virulence factor with opsonin function. To fabricate better vaccine against SEZ, We have generated a szp-knockout strain by homologous recombination. Two fragments, upstream and downstream of the szp gene, were obtained by genome walking. The vector was then used to delete a 1090 bp segment of szp gene...
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