Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, April 20th, 2006
"Trichinellosis is a serious parasitic zoonosis which is widely distributed in the world. Pork still is the predominant source of outbreaks of human trichinellosis in many countries. Vaccines are urgently needed to prevent swine from Trichinella infection," wrote Z.Q. Wang and colleagues, Zhengzhou University.
"The gene (TspE1) encoding a 31 kDa antigen of T. spiralis was cloned to a eukaryotic expression plasmid pcDNA3 as DNA vaccine," the scientists...
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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2006-04-20)
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