Intranasal vaccination with leishmanial antigens protects golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) against Leishmania (Viannia) Braziliensis infection.

• Hauptverfasser: Luzinei da Silva-Couto (Verfasst von), Raquel Peralva Ribeiro-Romão (Verfasst von), Andrea Franco Saavedra (Verfasst von), Beatriz Lilian da Silva Costa Souza (Verfasst von), Otacílio Cruz Moreira (Verfasst von), Adriano Gomes-Silva (Verfasst von), Bartira Rossi-Bergmann (Verfasst von), Alda Maria Da-Cruz (Verfasst von), Eduardo Fonseca Pinto (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Previous results have shown that oral and intranasal administration of particulate Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis antigens (LaAg) partially protects mice against L. amazonensis infection. However, vaccination studies on species of the subgenus Viannia, the main causative agent of cutaneous and...