Clinical and field trials with attenuated Salmonella typhi as live oral vaccines and as "carrier" vaccines.

doi:10.1016/0923-2508(90)90114-6

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Clinical and field trials with attenuated Salmonella typhi as live oral vaccines and as "carrier" vaccines.

Research in microbiology - 1 Jan 2000

Levine M M, Hone D, Tacket C, Ferreccio C, Cryz S

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In recent years there has been a resurgence of research to develop new and improved attenuated strains of Salmonella typhi to function as live oral vaccines against typhoid fever and to serve as "carrier" vaccines to express foreign antigens of other pathogens and deliver them to the immune syste...

Topics

Administration, Oral
Humans
Mutation
Salmonella typhi
Typhoid-Paratyphoid Vaccines
Vaccines, Attenuated
Vaccines, Synthetic

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