leishmaniasis is a major infectious disease of considerable public health in more than 86 countries around the world. several approaches toward vaccine development against this disease have been taken. glycoprotein (gp63) is conserved among diverse species of leishmania and has induced immunological responses in murine models. therefore, this glycoprotein has been considered as a second generat...

The nucleotide sequence of a cryptic plasmid (pRMG1) isolated from a type 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae has been determined and two recombinant plasmids, pRMGE1 and pRMGE2, bearing the pRMG1 replicon have been constructed. pRMGE2 is a shuttle vector for Escherichia coli and S. pneumoniae. The important characteristics of this cloning vector are: a size of 5.5 kb including a 1.4 kb fragment of pRMG...