Leishmania major LACK Antigen Is Required for Efficient Vertebrate Parasitization
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Leishmania major LACK Antigen Is Required for Efficient Vertebrate Parasitization
The Leishmania major LACK antigen is a key target of the immune response in susceptible BALB/c mice and remains a viable vaccine candidate for human leishmaniasis. We describe the genomic organization of the four lack genes in the L. major diploid genome together with results of selected lack gene targeting. Parasites containing a single lack gene in either the upstream or downstream locus grew...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1540-9538,0022-1007
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20031162