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[Vaccination against typhoid fever: results and perspectives]
T A Gremiakova1, N K Fursova, A V Stepanov
1State Scientific Center of Applied Microbiology, Obolensk.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The review deals with the world history and the current status of typhoid fever vaccination. It analyzes parenteral and oral killed cellular, oral live attenuated, molecular vaccines are analyzed. The results of field trials of parenteral and oral vaccines in the areas showing different epidemiology and incidence are analyzed. The problems in the designing of molecular typhi vaccines are considered. The results of designing the new generation vaccines S. typhi strains attenuated by means of site-specific mutagenesis and Vi-polysaccharide-protein conjugates are presented.