Intranasal delivery of naked DNA encoding the LACK antigen leads to protective immunity against visceral leishmaniasis in mice

Vaccination with DNA Encoding the Immunodominant LACK Parasite Antigen Confers Protective Immunity to Mice Infected with <i>Leishmania major </i>

Sanjay Gurunathan, David L. Sacks, Daniel R. Brown et al. · The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 1997 · 360 citations · Full text

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Expression Cloning of a Protective <i>Leishmania</i> Antigen

Evelyne Mougneau, Frédéric Altare, Adil E. Wakil et al. · Science · 1995 · 347 citations

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IL-4 Rapidly Produced by Vβ4 Vα8 CD4+ T Cells Instructs Th2 Development and Susceptibility to Leishmania major in BALB/c Mice

Pascal Launois, Ivan Maillard, Sabine Pingel et al. · Immunity · 1997 · 306 citations · Full text

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Immune Responses Induced by the<i>Leishmania</i>(<i>Leishmania</i>)<i>donovani</i>A2 Antigen, but Not by the LACK Antigen, Are Protective against Experimental<i>Leishmania</i>(<i>Leishmania</i>)<i>amazonensis</i>Infection

Eduardo Antônio Ferraz Coelho, Carlos Alberto Pereira Tavares, Fernando Aécio de Amorim Carvalho et al. · Infection and Immunity · 2003 · 246 citations · Full text

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Kinetoplastid Membrane Protein-11 DNA Vaccination Induces Complete Protection against Both Pentavalent Antimonial-Sensitive and -Resistant Strains of <i>Leishmania donovani</i> That Correlates with Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity and IL-4 Generation: Evidence for Mixed Th1- and Th2-Like Responses in Visceral Leishmaniasis

Rajatava Basu, Suniti Bhaumik, Jayati Basu et al. · The Journal of Immunology · 2005 · 243 citations · Full text

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