Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
2407124 Vaccine 2008 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

Cellular immunity is indispensable for efficient protection against intracellular bacterial infection. CD4+ and CD8+ T cells specific for a variety of antigenic peptides derived from particular bacteria are induced after the infection. T cells recognizing different antigenic peptides have been speculated to have different functions in terms of the protective immunity. We here induced individual CD4+ T cells specific for each antigenic peptide derived from Listeria monocytogenes independently with DNA vaccines using gene gun bombardment and compared the CD4+ T-cell populations for their ability on the specific protective immunity against lethal listerial challenge and analyzed their characteristics.

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