Animal Studies

Vaccine Against One HIV Type Works Against Another In Primate

Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 17th, 1995

Monkeys vaccinated against one type of HIV were partly protected from a different type, a small study found.

The result suggests that an AIDS vaccine for people might be able to protect against a wide variety of HIV, researchers wrote.

Rhesus macaques were immunized against HIV-1, the dominant type in the United States, and exposed to HIV-2, which is prevalent in West Africa.

Three of eight vaccinated macaques resisted HIV-2 infection during the six-month observation period, while all three unvaccinated animals became infected, researchers reported in the April 1995 issue of the journal Nature Medicine.

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