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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an adjuvant which enables the parenteral delivery of a vaccine for raising an immune response. SOLUTION: The composition is a parenteral adjuvant composition comprising a detoxified mutant of a bacterial ADP-ribosylating toxin as a parenteral adjuvant and at least one selected antigen. In one embodiment, the nontoxic adjuvant is a detoxified mutant selected from the group consisting of cholera toxin (CT), pertussis toxin (PT), and E. coli heat-labile toxin (LT). In another embodiment, the detoxified mutant comprises the addition, deletion, or substitution of at least one amino acid in the A subunit of bacterial holo-toxin. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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