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A Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Elicits Broad Neutralizing Antibody Responses in Humans to All Chikungunya Virus Genotypes.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Nov 2016
Goo Leslie, Dowd Kimberly A, Lin Tsai-Yu, Mascola John R, Graham Barney S, Ledgerwood Julie E, Pierson Theodore C
Abstract excerpt
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus that has emerged as a global health burden. There are 3 CHIKV genotypes: Asian, West African, and Eastern/Central/South African. No licensed CHIKV vaccine is available, and whether the antibody response elicited by one genotype can neutralize heterologous genotypes is unclear. We assessed neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses of volunteers in a phase 1 study of a CHIKV...
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