Yersinia pestis CO92 delta yopH is a potent live, attenuated plague vaccine.

Clin Vaccine Immunol

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.

Published: September 2007

An in-frame deletion of the yopH gene in Yersinia pestis CO92 attenuates virulence in both bubonic and pneumonic plague models. When it is used as a live, attenuated vaccine, CO92 delta yopH provides a high degree of protection from parental and respiratory challenge with Y. pestis CO92.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2043315PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/CVI.00137-07DOI Listing

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