A Novel Mimetic Antigen Eliciting Protective Antibody toNeisseria meningitidis
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A novel mimetic antigen eliciting protective antibody to Neisseria meningitidis.
Molecular mimetic Ags are of considerable interest as vaccine candidates. Yet there are few examples of mimetic Ags that elicit protective Ab against a pathogen, and the functional activity of anti-mimetic Abs has not been studied in detail. As part of the Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B genome sequencing project, a large number of novel proteins were identified. Herein, we provide evidence ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Immunology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0022-1767,1550-6606
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.11.6487