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Construction and characterization of a live attenuated vaccine candidate against Shigella dysenteriae type 1.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Klee, S. R. Tzschaschel, B. D. Fält, I. C. Kärnell, Anders Lindberg, A. A. Timmis, Kenneth N. Guzmán, Carlos Alberto |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | Vaccine candidates against Shigella dysenteriae type 1, which is associated with the most severe cases of bacillary dysentery, were constructed. The rfp and rfb gene clusters, which code for S. dysenteriae 1 O antigen biosynthesis, were randomly integrated into either the chromosome or the virulence plasmid of the rough attenuated Shigella flexneri aroD strain SFL124-27 with a minitransposon carrying an arsenite resistance selection marker. The recombinant clones efficiently expressed the recombinant O antigen, exhibited a normal growth pattern, were able to invade and survive within eukaryotic cells to the same extent as the parental strain, and expressed the recombinant antigen within invaded cells. A clone was selected as the vaccine candidate, which was demonstrated to be immunogenic and safe in animal models, leading to 47% full protection and 53% partial protection against challenge with the wild-type strain. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://hzi.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10033/8535/Klee%20et%20al_final.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://iai.asm.org/content/65/6/2112.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 9169740 |
| Volume Number | 65 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Journal | Infection and immunity |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |