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Samantha L Sampson1, Christopher C Dascher, Vasan K Sambandamurthy, Robert G Russell, William R Jacobs, Barry R Bloom, Mary K Hondalus.
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We developed a live, fully attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis vaccine candidate strain with two independent attenuating auxotrophic mutations in leucine and pantothenate biosynthesis. The deltaleuD deltapanCD double auxotroph is fully attenuated in the SCID mouse model and highly immunogenic and protective in the extremely sensitive guinea pig tuberculosis model, reducing both bacterial burden and disease pathology.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15102816 PMCID: PMC387862 DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.5.3031-3037.2004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Infect Immun ISSN: 0019-9567 Impact factor: 3.441