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Canarypox Prime/Boost Approach Ready for Advanced Trials

Published in Vaccine Weekly, February 10th, 1997

Researchers testing a promising HIV vaccine strategy say their approach is ready for efficacy trials.

The approach employs priming immunizations with a recombinant canarypox virus (ALVAC, Virogenetics), dubbed vCP205, followed by boosting immunizations with recombinant HIV gp120 envelope glycoprotein (rgp120MN in MF59 adjuvant, Chiron/Biocine).

Lawrence Corey of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues from the NIAID AIDS Vaccine Evaluation Group (AVEG) reported the latest findings from AVEG study 022 in a late-breaking news session at the Fourth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held January 22-26 in Washington,...

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