Vaccination against the digestive enzyme Cathepsin B using a YS1646 Salmonella enterica Typhimurium vector provides almost complete protection against Schistosoma mansoni challenge in a mouse model.

Schistosoma mansoni threatens hundreds of millions of people in >50 countries. Schistosomulae migrate through the lung and adult worms reside in blood vessels adjacent to the intestinal mucosa. Current candidate vaccines aren't designed to elicit a mucosal response. We have repurposed an att...

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Main Authors: Adam S Hassan (Author), Nicholas H Zelt (Author), Dilhan J Perera (Author), Momar Ndao (Author), Brian J Ward (Author)
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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