Submissions tagged with Vaccine
(3 documents)
Tuberculosis vaccine strain Mycobacterium bovis BCG Russia is a natural recA mutant
The current tuberculosis vaccine is a live vaccine derived from Mycobacterium bovis and attenuated by serial in vitro passaging. All vaccine substrains in use stem from one source, strain Bacille C...
Received 07 February 2008 10:54 GMT; Posted 07 February 2008
Posted to: Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Genetics, Microbiology
Aggregation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in a Human H5N1 Clade 2.2 Hemagglutinin
The rapid evolution of the H5N1 serotype of avian influenza has been explained by a mechanism involving the selection of single nucleotide polymorphisms generated by copy errors. The recent emerge...
Received 10 September 2007 09:26 GMT; Posted 12 September 2007
Posted to: Biotechnology, Chemistry, Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
H5N1 Clade 2.2 Polymorphism Tracing Identifies Influenza Recombination and Potential Vaccine Targets
Highly pathogenic Influenza A H5N1 was first identified in Guangdong Province in 1996, followed by human cases in Hong Kong in 1997 1. The number of confirmed human cases now exceeds 300 and the as...
Received 07 August 2007 17:32 GMT; Posted 07 August 2007
Posted to: Biotechnology, Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Genetics, Microbiology, Bioinformatics