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Immune protection of nonhuman primates against Ebola virus with single low-dose adenovirus vectors encoding modified GPs.
PLoS medicine - 1 Jun 2006
Sullivan Nancy J, Geisbert Thomas W, Geisbert Joan B, Shedlock Devon J, Xu Ling, Lamoreaux Laurie, Custers Jerome H H V, Popernack Paul M, Yang Zhi-Yong, Pau Maria G, Roederer Mario, Koup Richard A, Goudsmit Jaap, Jahrling Peter B, Nabel Gary J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ebola virus causes a hemorrhagic fever syndrome that is associated with high mortality in humans. In the absence of effective therapies for Ebola virus infection, the development of a vaccine becomes an important strategy to contain outbreaks. Immunization with DNA and/or replication-defective adenoviral vectors (rAd) encoding the Ebola glycoprotein (GP) and nucleoprotein (NP) has been previously...
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