Preclinical validation of a live attenuated dermotropic Leishmania vaccine against vector transmitted fatal visceral leishmaniasis
Karmakar et al produced a dermotropic, live attenuated centrin gene-deleted Leishmania major (LmCen −/− ) vaccine against Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL). They demonstrated in hamsters that a single intradermal injection confers robust and durable protection against lethal VL that is transmitted natural...
Main Authors: | Subir Karmakar, Nevien Ismail, Fabiano Oliveira, James Oristian, Wen Wei Zhang, Swarnendu Kaviraj, Kamaleshwar P. Singh, Abhishek Mondal, Sushmita Das, Krishna Pandey, Parna Bhattacharya, Greta Volpedo, Sreenivas Gannavaram, Monika Satoskar, Sanika Satoskar, Rajiv M. Sastry, Timur Oljuskin, Telly Sepahpour, Claudio Meneses, Shinjiro Hamano, Pradeep Das, Greg Matlashewski, Sanjay Singh, Shaden Kamhawi, Ranadhir Dey, Jesus G. Valenzuela, Abhay Satoskar, Hira L. Nakhasi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-07-01
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Series: | Communications Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02446-x |
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