Article
Novel human monoclonal antibody combination effectively neutralizing natural rabies virus variants and individual in vitro escape mutants.
Journal of virology - 1 Jul 2005
Bakker Alexander B H, Marissen Wilfred E, Kramer R Arjen, Rice Amy B, Weldon William C, Niezgoda Michael, Hanlon Cathleen A, Thijsse Sandra, Backus Harold H J, de Kruif John, Dietzschold Bernhard, Rupprecht Charles E, Goudsmit Jaap
Abstract excerpt
The need to replace rabies immune globulin (RIG) as an essential component of rabies postexposure prophylaxis is widely acknowledged. We set out to discover a unique combination of human monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) able to replace RIG. Stringent criteria concerning neutralizing potency, affinity, breadth of neutralization, and coverage of natural rabies virus (RV) isolates and in vitro escape mutants were set...
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