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- Title
Using a Syrian (Golden) Hamster Biological Model for the Evaluation of Recombinant Anthrax Vaccines.
- Authors
Kravchenko, Tatiana; Titareva, Galina; Bakhteeva, Irina; Kombarova, Tatiana; Borzilov, Alexander; Mironova, Raisa; Khlopova, Kseniya; Timofeev, Vitalii
- Abstract
In this paper, we demonstrate that a Syrian hamster biological model can be applied to the study of recombinant anthrax vaccines. We show that double vaccination with recombinant proteins, such as protective antigen (PA) and fusion protein LF1PA4, consisting of lethal factor I domain (LF) and PA domain IV, leads to the production of high titers of specific antibodies and to protection from infection with the toxicogenic encapsulated attenuated strain B. anthracis 71/12. In terms of antibody production and protection, Syrian hamsters were much more comparable to guinea pigs than mice. We believe that Syrian hamsters are still underestimated as a biological model for anthrax research, and, in some cases, they can be used as a replacement or at least as a complement to the traditionally used mouse model.
- Subjects
ANTHRAX vaccines; BIOLOGICAL models; GUINEA pigs; HAMSTERS; RECOMBINANT proteins; CHIMERIC proteins; GOLDEN hamster; IMMUNOGLOBULINS
- Publication
Life (2075-1729), 2021, Vol 11, Issue 12, p1388
- ISSN
2075-1729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/life11121388