Editorial: Epitope Discovery and Synthetic Vaccine Design

Clarisa Beatriz Palatnik-de-Sousa^{1

2}, Irene da Silva Soares³, Daniela Santoro Rosa^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratório de Biologiae Bioquimica de Leishmania, Microbiologia Geral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
² Instituto de Investigação em Imunologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analyses, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Editorial

Clarisa Beatriz Palatnik-de-Sousa et al. Front Immunol. 2018.

. 2018 Apr 18:9:826.

doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00826. eCollection 2018.

Clarisa Beatriz Palatnik-de-Sousa^{1

2}, Irene da Silva Soares³, Daniela Santoro Rosa^{2

4}

¹ Laboratório de Biologiae Bioquimica de Leishmania, Microbiologia Geral, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
² Instituto de Investigação em Imunologia, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analyses, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.

No abstract available

Keywords: B-cell epitope vaccines; T-epitope vaccines; epitope data-bank; epitopes; immunoinformatics; synthetic vaccines; vaccines.

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