HIV Vaccines
Rabies Virus-Based Vaccine Against HIV Created; Other Viruses Next
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 20th, 2000
Scientists have devised for the first time an HIV vaccine using a weakened rabies virus to carry a piece of the HIV "coat" into a cell. In rousing the body into making anti-HIV antibodies, they may have found a way to effectively turn on the immune system against the virus. The work, which for now is limited to tests in mice, lends hope to eventually designing such a vaccine against HIV in humans.
The researchers, led by Matthias Schnell, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology, and Roger...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2000-03-20)
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