Kicking in the guts: Schistosoma mansoni digestive tract proteins are potential candidates for vaccine development

Kicking in the guts: Schistosoma mansoni digestive tract proteins are potential candidates for vaccine development

Schistosomiasis is a debilitating disease that represents a major health problem in at least 74 tropical and subtropical countries. Current disease control strategies consist mainly of chemotherapy which cannot prevent recurrent re-infection of people living in endemic area. In the last decades, man...

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Main Authors: Barbara Castro-Pimentel Figueiredo, Natasha Delaqua Ricci, Natan Raimundo Gonçalves Assis, Suellen Batistoni Morais, Cristina Toscano Fonseca, Sergio Costa Oliveira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
Schistosoma mansoni
Vaccine
Proteases
digestive tract
Gastrodermis
esophageal gland
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2015.00022/full

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