Co-Administration of a Plasmid DNA Encoding IL-15 Improves Long-Term Protection of a Genetic Vaccine against Trypanosoma cruzi

• Christopher S. Eickhoff ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher S. Eickhoff, Jose R. Vasconcelos

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Jose R. Vasconcelos ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christopher S. Eickhoff, Jose R. Vasconcelos

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Centro de Terapia Celular e Molecular, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Nicole L. Sullivan,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Azra Blazevic,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Oscar Bruna-Romero,

  Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Mauricio M. Rodrigues,

  Affiliation Centro de Terapia Celular e Molecular, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Daniel F. Hoft

  * E-mail: hoftdf@slu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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