Diagnostic and therapeutic studies of recombinant outer membrane proteins (r47) and (r56) vaccines of orientia tsutsugamushi citrate against tsutsugamushi disease and HIV infection

摘要

A scrub typhus vaccine comprising truncated r47 protein and truncated r56 protein is disclosed. Vaccines composed of r56 protein variants are also disclosed. Methods of reducing HIV viral loads using r47 and r56 proteins and antibodies raised against r47 and r56 are also disclosed.