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Título : | Making an anti-amastigote vaccine for visceral leishmaniasis : rational, update and perspectives. |
Autor : | Fernandes, Ana Paula Salles Moura Coelho, Eduardo Antônio Ferraz Coelho, George Luiz Lins Machado Grimaldi Junior, Gabriel Gazzinelli, Ricardo Tostes |
Palabras clave : | Visceral leishmaniasis Vaccine |
Fecha de publicación : | 2012 |
Citación : | FERNANDES, A. P. Making an anti-amastigote vaccine for visceral leishmaniasis : rational, update and perspectives. Current Opinion in Microbiology, v. 5, p. 12, 2012. Disponível em: <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369527412000562>. Acesso em: 01 set. 2014. |
Resumen : | Visceral leishmaniasis is a major health problem in Latina America, as well as the Mediterranean region of Europe and Asia. We aimed to develop a vaccine against visceral leishmaniasis targeting the intracellular amastigotes, which is the parasite stage that persists throughout infections with Leishmania parasites. With this in mind, we identified an amastigote specific antigen (A2) that contains an immunogenic epitope for CD4+ T helper (Th) cells and multiple repetitive units encoding CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitopes. Vaccine formulations containing the recombinant A2 associated with saponin, alum and IL-12 or expressed by attenuated adenovirus were shown to be protective in mice, dogs and nonhuman-primates. We are currently identifying novel amastigote specific immunogenic proteins that could be aggregated to A2 to further improve the level of vaccineinduced cell-mediated immunity and protection against visceral leishmaniasis. |
URI : | http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/3762 |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2012.05.002 |
ISSN : | 1369-5274 |
metadata.dc.rights.license: | O periódico Current Opinion in Microbiology concede permissão para depósito deste artigo no Repositório Institucional da UFOP. Número da licença: 3461450283724. |
Aparece en las colecciones: | DEMSC - Artigos publicados em periódicos |
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