Cloning and expression of hepatitis E virus ORF2 as a vaccine candidate

Introduction: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a fecal-oral transmitting virus which causes a chronic liver disease. ORF2 is an immunogen capsid protein of HEV that has been proposed to be used for Hepatitis E vaccine design. It is a 660-amino acid protein which includes an immunogenic region (residues 11...

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Main Authors: SA Sadeghi, MR Aghasadeghi, MR Amiran, G Bahramali, P Rahimi, P Owlia, M Ghanei, SZ Moravej, S Shahbazi, M Divbandi, F Motevalli, M Hamidi-Fard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pasteur Institute of Iran 2017-11-01
Series:Vaccine Research
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Online Access:http://vacres.pasteur.ac.ir/article-1-119-en.html