| abstract |
The invention relates to the use of a protein or anfragment thereof of S. pneumoniae, its use for thenpreparation of a vaccine for the preventive treatment of a S.npneumoniae infection, compositions comprising proteasenmaturation protein of S. pneumoniae or a fragment thereof,nvaccines comprising said protein or fragment thereof, use ofna nucleic acid sequence encoding for said protein or fragmentnthereof, vectors wherein the nucleic acid sequence is broughtnto expression and to recombinant protease maturation proteinnor a fragment thereof. |