摘要 |
Attenuated microorganisms expressing Clostridium difficile antigen(s), and methods of using the same for vaccination of patients are disclosed The invention provides an attenuated microorganism expressing an immunogenic portion of a C difficile Toxin A C-terminal repeat region and/or a C difficile Toxin B C-terminal repeat region The microorganism is an attenuated Salmonella comprising an integrated gene expression cassette that directs the expression of the immunogenic peptide from an in vivo inducible promoter. |