Vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae using truncated derivatives of polyhistidine triad protein D.

Polyhistidine triad protein D (PhtD) has been described as a promising vaccine candidate for use against Streptococcus pneumoniae, but there has been a lack of examination of its structure and of which region(s) of the protein are targeted by protective immune responses. In this study, we purified r...

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Main Authors: Charles D Plumptre, Abiodun D Ogunniyi, James C Paton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3814962?pdf=render