Vaccine potential of attenuated mutants of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in sheep.

doi:10.1128/IAI.66.2.474-479.1998

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Vaccine potential of attenuated mutants of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis in sheep.

Infection and immunity - 1 Feb 1998

Simmons C P, Dunstan S J, Tachedjian M, Krywult J, Hodgson A L, Strugnell R A

Abstract excerpt

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, a gram-positive facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen, is the etiological agent of the economically important disease caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) in both sheep and goats. Attenuated mutants of C. pseudotuberculosis have the potential to act as novel vacc...

Topics

Animals
Antibodies, Bacterial
Bacterial Vaccines
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis
Hydro-Lyases
Immunoglobulin G
Mutation
Sheep
Vaccination
Vaccines, Attenuated

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