Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 28th, 2005
"Pulmonary infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis causes pneumonic plague, an often-fatal disease for which no vaccine is presently available. Antibody-mediated humoral immunity can protect mice against pulmonary Y. pestis infection, an experimental model of pneumonic plague. Little is known about the protective efficacy of cellular immunity."
"We investigated the cellular immune response to Y. pestis in B-cell-deficient muMT mice, which lack the capacity to generate antibody responses," scientists...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2005-12-28)
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