ELI-Antigen 1 (ELI-Ag1) was tested for its protective capacity in BALB/c mice against intraperitoneal challenge with 2500 arthroconidia of this dimorphic fungus and was found to be highly protective (Ivey et al., 2003).
References
Ivey et al., 2003: Ivey FD, Magee DM, Woitaske MD, Johnston SA, Cox RA. Identification of a protective antigen of Coccidioides immitis by expression library immunization. Vaccine. 2003; 21(27-30); 4359-4367. [PubMed: 14505918].
