Farm animals are frequently affected by a group of diseases with a rapid clinical course, caused by Clostridium spp. and immunization is essential to provide protection. However, the current manufacturing platform for these vaccines has disadvantages and the main alternative is the use of an expression system that uses Escherichia coli to obtain recombinant vaccine antigens. In this chapter we describe procedures for cloning, expression and characterization of recombinant toxins from Clostridium spp. produced in E. coli for veterinary vaccine applications.
Keywords: Clostridium spp.; Escherichia coli; Farm animals; Toxins.
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