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ArticleClinical and experimental immunology2020

Recombinant Mycobacterium bovis BCG is a promising platform to develop vaccines against Trypansoma cruzi infection.

I Bontempi, K Leal, E Prochetto, G Díaz, G Cabrera, A Bortolotti, H R Morbidoni, S Borsuk, O Dellagostin, I Marcipar

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Article in Clinical and experimental immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

I BontempiFacultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
K LealNúcleo de Biotecnologia, CDTec, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.
E ProchettoFacultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
G DíazFacultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
G CabreraFacultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
A BortolottiLaboratorio de Microbiología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina.
H R MorbidoniLaboratorio de Microbiología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina.
S BorsukNúcleo de Biotecnologia, CDTec, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.
O DellagostinNúcleo de Biotecnologia, CDTec, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil.
I MarciparFacultad de Bioquímica y Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-8865-9816
Universidad Nacional del Litoral · ARUniversidade Federal de Pelotas · BRNational University of Rosario · AR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chagas disease, caused by the hemoflagelate parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, is one of the most prevalent endemic parasitoses, affecting 7-8 million people. Due to the complexity of the infection, no vaccines are available at present. The extraordinary adjuvant capacity of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) was explored in this work to develop a vaccine candidate to protect against T. cruzi infection using the recombinant BCG (rBCG) vaccine platform. Three antigens of the parasite corresponding to the N and C terminal fragments of the enzyme trans-sialidase (NT-TS and CT-TS, respectively) and a fragment of the cruzipain enzyme (CZf) were cloned into the vectors pUS997 and pUS2000 and transformed into the BCG Pasteur strain. In vaccinated mice, rBCG expressing NT-TS in pUS2000 plasmid provided the highest protection and the lowest parasitemia after challenging BALB/c mice with a 50% lethal dose of parasites. When mice vaccinated with pUS2000-NT-TS were challenged with a 100% lethal dose of parasite, high levels of protection were also obtained, together with a low degree of cardiac lesions 120 days after infection. In immunized mice with pUS2000-NT-TS/rBCG clone, the proliferation of CD4

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Adjuvants, ImmunologicAnimalsAntigens, ProtozoanCells, CulturedChagas DiseaseCloning, MolecularCysteine EndopeptidasesDisease Models, AnimalHumansImmunizationMiceMycobacterium bovisNeuraminidaseProtozoan ProteinsProtozoan VaccinesTh17 CellsAdjuvants, ImmunologicAntigens, ProtozoancruzipainCysteine EndopeptidasesNeuraminidaseProtozoan ProteinsProtozoan VaccinesVaccines, Syntheticmouse infectionrBCGrecombinant Mycobacterium bovisTrypansoma cruzivaccine

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PMID32464684
PMCPMC7419981
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