Evaluation of respiratory model employing conventional NIH mice to access the immunity induced by cellular and acellular pertussis vaccines

The increasing number of pertussis cases reported on the last twenty years and the existence of new acellular vaccines reinforce the need of research for experimental models to assure the quality of available pertussis vaccines. In this study, allotments of whole-cell and acellular pertussis vaccine...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Alves de Souza de Oliveira Dias, Maria Aparecida Affonso Boller, Lúcia Maria Correa Werneck, Raphael Hirata Junior, Ana Luíza Mattos-Guaraldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2006-11-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762006000700007