Chapter title |
Vaccine Design
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Chapter number | 23 |
Book title |
Vaccine Design
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2016
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-3387-7_23 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-3385-3, 978-1-4939-3387-7
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Authors |
Karunakaran, Karuna P, Yu, Hong, Foster, Leonard J, Brunham, Robert C, Karuna P. Karunakaran, Hong Yu, Leonard J. Foster, Robert C. Brunham |
Editors |
Sunil Thomas |
Abstract |
Vaccines based on humoral immunity alone are unlikely to protect against infections caused by intracellular pathogens and today's most pressing infectious diseases of public health importance are caused by intracellular infections that include tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and others such as Chlamydia trachomatis. For these infections, vaccines that induce cellular immune responses are essential. Major impediments in developing such vaccines include difficulty in identifying relevant T cell antigens and delivering them in ways that elicit protective cellular immunity. Genomics and proteomics now provide tools to allow unbiased empirical identification of candidate T cell antigens. This approach represents an advance on bioinformatic searches for candidate T cell antigens. This chapter discusses an immunoproteomic approach we have used to identify Chlamydia T cell antigens. We further discuss how these T cell antigens can be developed into a human vaccine. |
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