Hepatitis E Virus

DNA vaccine protects macaques against viral infection

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, January 20th, 2003

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Government researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that DNA vaccine has protected non-human primates against hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection.

Hepatitis E virus is best known as a zoonotic agent that infects swine as well as humans. Its endemicity is higher in developing nations than in areas that have already industrialized. To date, scientists have been unclear as to whether DNA vaccine could elicit protective immunity against the virus. Now, researchers at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia report that it can.

Saleem Kamili of the Division of Viral Hepatitis at CDC headed...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2003-01-20)

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