Cooperia vaccine
AssigneeUniversiteit Gent
InventorsPeter Geldhof, Jimmy Borloo, Edwin Claerebout, Jozef Vercruysse
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Abstract
The present invention relates to nucleotide sequences encoding Cooperia antigens, as well as to recombinant DNA molecules containing such nucleotide sequences and host cells expressing these nucleotide sequences. The invention further relates to Cooperia proteins, to methods for the production of the proteins, nucleotide sequences, recombinant DNA molecules and hosts. Furthermore, the invention relates to vaccines which induce protective immunity against infection by parasitic nematodes such as species of the genus Cooperia and to methods for preparing such a vaccine.
Claims11
An isolated complementary DNA (“cDNA”) nucleic acid sequence encoding a Cooperia oncophora protein or immunogenic fragment of the protein, wherein the protein or immunogenic fragment thereof comprises an amino acid sequence having a sequence identity of at least 85% to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO:
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