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Rapid development of vaccine protection in macaques by live-attenuated simian immunodeficiency virus.
The Journal of general virology - 1 Dec 1996
Stahl-Hennig C, Dittmer U, Nisslein T, Petry H, Jurkiewicz E, Fuchs D, Wachter H, Mätz-Rensing K, Kuhn E M, Kaup F J, Rud E W, Hunsmann G
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Convincing data on experimental vaccines against AIDS have been obtained in the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) macaque model by preinfection with a virus attenuated by a nef deletion. To investigate the efficacy of a nef deletion mutant of SIVmac32H called pC8 as a live-attenuated vaccine after shorter preinfection periods and to learn more about the nature of the immune protection induced, eight rhesus...
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