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Evaluation of virulent and live Shigella sonnei vaccine candidates in a gnotobiotic piglet model.
Vaccine - 20 Aug 2013
Jeong Kwang-Il, Venkatesan Malabi M, Barnoy Shoshana, Tzipori Saul
Abstract excerpt
Newborn gnotobiotic (GB) piglets given virulent Shigella orally develop many of the clinical symptoms and gastrointestinal (GI) manifestations that mimic human shigellosis. Shigella sonnei virulent strain Moseley, a mutant ShET2-1,2, lacking enterotoxin SenA and its paralog SenB, and vaccine candidates WRSS1 and WRSs3 were evaluated in this model for rates of diarrhea, colonization and other GI symptoms and...
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