Live Attenuated Mutants of Francisella tularensis Protect Rabbits against Aerosol Challenge with a Virulent Type A Strain

Utilization of Fc Receptors as a Mucosal Vaccine Strategy against an Intracellular Bacterium, Francisella tularensis

(2014) D. B. Rawool et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Live attenuated tularemia vaccines: Recent developments and future goals

(2013) Mark E. Marohn et al.   VACCINE

Interleukin-6 Is Essential for Primary Resistance to Francisella tularensis Live Vaccine Strain Infection

(2012) Sherry L. Kurtz et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Correlates of protection following vaccination of mice with gene deletion mutants of Francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis strain, SCHU S4 that elicit varying degrees of immunity to systemic and respiratory challenge with wild-type bacteria

(2012) Patrik Ryden et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

Signatures of T Cells as Correlates of Immunity to Francisella tularensis

(2012) Kjell Eneslätt et al.   PLoS One

Generation of a Convalescent Model of Virulent Francisella tularensis Infection for Assessment of Host Requirements for Survival of Tularemia

(2012) Deborah D. Crane et al.   PLoS One

Low Dose Vaccination with Attenuated Francisella tularensis Strain SchuS4 Mutants Protects against Tularemia Independent of the Route of Vaccination

(2012) Dedeke Rockx-Brouwer et al.   PLoS One

Growth conditions and environmental factors impact aerosolization but not virulence of Francisella tularensis infection in mice

(2012) Seth A. Faith et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Requirement of the CXXC Motif of Novel Francisella Infectivity Potentiator Protein B FipB, and FipA in Virulence of F. tularensis subsp. tularensis

(2011) Aiping Qin et al.   PLoS One

Pneumonic Tularemia in Rabbits Resembles the Human Disease as Illustrated by Radiographic and Hematological Changes after Infection

(2011) Douglas S. Reed et al.   PLoS One

Identification of Francisella tularensis outer membrane protein A (FopA) as a protective antigen for tularemia

(2011) Anthony J. Hickey et al.   VACCINE

A Francisella tularensis Live Vaccine Strain (LVS) Mutant with a Deletion in capB, Encoding a Putative Capsular Biosynthesis Protein, Is Significantly More Attenuated than LVS yet Induces Potent Protective Immunity in Mice against F. tularensis Challenge

(2010) Q. Jia et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Deletion of the Bacillus anthracis capB homologue in Francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis generates an attenuated strain that protects mice against virulent tularaemia

(2010) S. L. Michell et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Fischer 344 Rat Reflects Human Susceptibility to Francisella Pulmonary Challenge and Provides a New Platform for Virulence and Protection Studies

(2010) Heather J. Ray et al.   PLoS One

Immunoproteomics Analysis of the Murine Antibody Response to Vaccination with an Improved Francisella tularensis Live Vaccine Strain (LVS)

(2010) Susan M. Twine et al.   PLoS One

Molecular Immune Responses to Aerosol Challenge with Francisella tularensis in Mice Inoculated with Live Vaccine Candidates of Varying Efficacy

(2010) Hua Shen et al.   PLoS One

Differential Requirements for Protection against Mucosal Challenge with Francisella tularensis in the Presence versus Absence of Cholera Toxin B and Inactivated F. tularensis

(2009) C. Bitsaktsis et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of Francisella tularensis live vaccine strain in humans

(2009) H.M. El Sahly et al.   VACCINE

Characterization of rationally attenuated Francisella tularensis vaccine strains that harbor deletions in the guaA and guaB genes

(2009) Araceli E. Santiago et al.   VACCINE

Vaccination of Fischer 344 rats against pulmonary infections by Francisella tularensis type A strains

(2009) Terry H. Wu et al.   VACCINE

Differential ability of novel attenuated targeted deletion mutants of Francisella tularensis subspecies tularensis strain SCHU S4 to protect mice against aerosol challenge with virulent bacteria: Effects of host background and route of immunization

(2009) J. Wayne Conlan et al.   VACCINE

Humoral and cell-mediated immunity to the intracellular pathogenFrancisella tularensis

(2008) Girish S. Kirimanjeswara et al.   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Identification of an Essential Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis Virulence Factor

(2008) A. Qin et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

A Francisella tularensis Schu S4 Purine Auxotroph Is Highly Attenuated in Mice but Offers Limited Protection against Homologous Intranasal Challenge

(2008) Roger D. Pechous et al.   PLoS One

An improved Francisella tularensis live vaccine strain (LVS) is well tolerated and highly immunogenic when administered to rabbits in escalating doses using various immunization routes

(2008) Marcela F. Pasetti et al.   VACCINE