Assessment of a DNA vaccine encoding an anchored-glycosylphosphatidylinositol tegumental antigen complexed to protamine sulphate on immunoprotection against murine schistosomiasis

Protamine sulphate/DNA complexes have been shown to protect DNA from DNase digestion in a lipid system for gene transfer. A DNA-based vaccine complexed to protamine sulphate was used to induce an immune response against Schistosoma mansoni anchored-glycosylphosphatidylinositol tegumental antigen in...

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Main Authors: Eduardo JM Nascimento, Rosa V Amorim, André Cavalcanti, Veruska F Alves, Mineo Nakazawa, Valéria RA Pereira, Norma Lucena-Silva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2007-02-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762007000100003&lng=en&tlng=en