Comprehensive antigen screening identifies Moraxella catarrhalis proteins that induce protection in a mouse pulmonary clearance model.

Moraxella catarrhalis is one of the three most common causative bacterial pathogens of otitis media, however no effective vaccine against M. catarrhalis has been developed so far. To identify M. catarrhalis vaccine candidate antigens, we used carefully selected sera from children with otitis media a...

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Main Authors: Margarita Smidt, Patrick Bättig, Suzanne J C Verhaegh, Axel Niebisch, Markus Hanner, Sanja Selak, Wolfgang Schüler, Eva Morfeldt, Christel Hellberg, Eszter Nagy, Urban Lundberg, John P Hays, Andreas Meinke, Birgitta Henriques-Normark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3650003?pdf=render