Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Keywords
Yersinia Pestis, Outer Membrane Vesicles, Protective Antigen, Plague Vaccine
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.3390/biom10121694
Abstract
Despite the relatively low incidence of plague, its etiological agent, Yersinia pestis, is an exceptional epidemic danger due to the high infectivity and mortality of this infectious disease. Reports on the isolation of drug-resistant Y. pestis strains indicate the advisability of using asymmetric responses, such as phage therapy and vaccine prophylaxis in the fight against this problem. The current relatively effective live plague vaccine is not approved for use in most countries because of its ability to cause heavy local and system reactions and even a generalized infectious process in people with a repressed immune status or metabolic disorders, as well as lethal infection in some species of nonhuman primates. Therefore, developing alternative vaccines is of high priority and importance. However, until now, work on the development of plague vaccines has mainly focused on screening for the potential immunogens. Several investigators have identified the protective potency of bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) as a promising basis for bacterial vaccine candidates. This review is aimed at presenting these candidates of plague vaccine and the results of their analysis in animal models.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Biomolecules, v. 10, issue 12, art. 1694
Scholar Commons Citation
Byvalov, Andrey A.; Konyshev, Ilya V.; Uversky, Vladimir N.; Dentovskaya, Svetlana V.; and Anisimov, Andrey P., " Yersinia Outer Membrane Vesicles as Potential Vaccine Candidates in Protecting Against Plague" (2020). Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications. 879.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mme_facpub/879
