Article
Construction and vaccine potential of acapsular mutants of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae: use of excision of Tn916 to inactivate a target gene.
Infection and immunity - 1 Jul 1998
Shimoji Y, Mori Y, Sekizaki T, Shibahara T, Yokomizo Y
Abstract excerpt
We previously showed that acapsular transposon Tn916 mutants of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae are avirulent for mice. In this study, we constructed nonreverting acapsular mutants and examined the vaccine potential of the mutants in mice. A representative acapsular transposon mutant, 33H6, was plat...
Topics
- Animals
- Bacterial Capsules
- Bacterial Vaccines
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial
- Erysipelothrix
- Erysipelothrix Infections
- Female
- Immunization
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mutation
- Vaccines, Synthetic
- Virulence