Designing Vaccines to Neutralize Effective Toxin Delivery by Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are a leading cause of diarrheal illness in developing countries. Despite the discovery of these pathogens as a cause of cholera-like diarrhea over 40 years ago, and decades of vaccine development effort, there remains no broadly protective ETEC vaccine. The d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: James M. Fleckenstein, Alaullah Sheikh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-06-01
Series:Toxins
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/6/6/1799