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A native outer membrane vesicle vaccine confers protection against meningococcal colonization in human CEACAM1 transgenic mice.
Vaccine - 10 Mar 2015
Pajon Rolando, Buckwalter Carolyn M, Johswich Kay O, Gray-Owen Scott D, Granoff Dan M
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BACKGROUND: The effect of protein-based meningococcal vaccines on prevention of nasopharyngeal colonization has been difficult to investigate experimentally because a reliable animal colonization model did not exist. METHODS: Human CEACAM1 transgenic mice, which can be colonized by meningococci, were immunized IP with one of two meningococcal native outer membrane vesicle (NOMV) vaccines prepared from mutants...
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