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Generation and Characterization of a Live Attenuated Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Combination Vaccine Expressing Six Colonization Factors and Heat-Labile Toxin Subunit B
13 Oct 2011
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Live attenuated oral enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) vaccines have been demonstrated to be safe and immunogenic in human volunteers and to provide a viable approach to provide protection against this important pathogen. This report describes the construction of new ETEC vaccine candidate strains from recent clinical isolates and their characterization. All known genes for ETEC toxins were removed, and...
