HIV Vaccines

Plant Virus-Based Vaccines Can Be Effective

Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 3rd, 2001

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Plant viruses can be used as the basis for potent vaccines for HIV and possibly other infections, according to researchers in Italy.

Eugenio Benvenuto and colleagues at the Institute for New Energy and Environmental Technology (ENEA) and the Istituto Superiore di Sanita in Rome reported the results of their study on the "high-yield expression of a neutralizing epitope from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) on the surface of a plant virus and its immunogenicity" in the September issue of the Journal of Virology.

Plant virus-based vaccines induced strong antiviral responses in a murine model,...

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