ESSENTIAL GENES AND GENE PRODUCTS FOR IDENTIFYING, DEVELOPING AND OPTIMISING IMMUNOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVE INGREDIENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF MICROBIAL INFECTIONS

摘要

The invention relates to methods for preparing therapeutic, preventative and/or diagnostic agents for treating microbial infections and to methods for identifying and characterising essential genes from Helicobacter pylori . The invention also relates to the identified nucleic acids which code for the essential gene products and to the polypeptides which are coded therefrom.