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Construction of an aroA mutant of Salmonella serotype Gallinarum: its effectiveness in immunization against experimental fowl typhoid.
Vaccine - 1 Jan 1993
Griffin H G, Barrow P A
Abstract excerpt
An aroA mutant was produced from a virulent strain of Salmonella Gallinarum, the causative agent of fowl typhoid in poultry, by Tn10 insertional inactivation and deletion. The mutant was highly attenuated for chickens. A single intramuscular immunization of 2-week-old chickens with 10(7) mutant organisms reduced mortality following oral challenge with 10(8) organisms of the parent strain from 63 to 30%. In a...
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