ArticleVaccine2011
Vaccination of guinea pigs using mce operon mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Article in Vaccine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Mammalian cell entry operons; novel and major subset candidates for diagnostics with special reference toThe veterinary quarterly · 2019Review
- A Nonsynonymous SNP Catalog of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Virulence Genes and Its Use for Detecting New Potentially Virulent Sublineages.Genome biology and evolution · 2017Article
- Assessment of the immune responses induced in cattle after inoculation of a Mycobacterium bovis strain deleted in two mce2 genes.Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology · 2012Article
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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The limited efficacy of the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis, coupled with emerging information suggesting that it is poorly protective against newly emerging strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis such as the W-Beijing isolates, makes it paramount to search for more potent alternatives. One such class of candidates is attenuated mutants derived from M. tuberculosis itself. We demonstrate here, in an initial short term assay, that mutants derived from disruption of the mce genes of the bacillus were highly protective in guinea pigs exposed by low dose aerosol infection with the virulent W-Beijing isolate SA161. This protection was demonstrated by a significant reduction in the numbers of bacilli harvested from the lungs, and dramatic improvements in lung histopathology.
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