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Development of a safe live Leishmania vaccine line by gene replacement.
24 Oct 1995
Abstract excerpt
Vaccination with live Leishmania major has been shown to yield effective immunization in humans; however, this has been discontinued because of problems associated with virulence of the available vaccine lines. To circumvent this, we tested the ability of a dhfr-ts- null mutant of L. major, obtained by gene targeting, to infect and then to vaccinate mice against challenge with virulent L. major. Survival and...
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