Correlates of protection following vaccination of mice with gene deletion mutants of Francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis strain, SCHU S4 that elicit varying degrees of immunity to systemic and respiratory challenge with wild-type bacteria
Authors:
- Susan TwineSTSusan Twine
- Hua ShenHSHua Shen
- Gregory HarrisGHGregory Harris
- Wangxue ChenWCWangxue Chen
- Anders SjostedtASAnders Sjostedt
- Wayne ConlanWCWayne Conlan
- 1 May 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Molecular Immunology
- Vol. 54 (1) , 58-67
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Funding Information
- Swedish Medical Research Council (K2010-9485)
- Umea University
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