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Ebola Vaccine

Virus-like particles are candidates for Ebola and Marburg vaccines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 13th, 2005

Researchers have identified virus-like particles that exhibit potential as a pan-filovirus vaccine for both Ebola and Marburg viral infections.

"A safe and effective pan-filovirus vaccine is highly desirable since the filoviruses Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) cause highly lethal disease typified by unimpeded viral replication and severe hemorrhagic fever.

"Previously, we showed that expression of the homologous glycoprotein (GP) and matrix protein VP40 from a single filovirus, either EBOV or MARV, resulted in formation of wild-type virus-like particles (VLPs) in mammalian cells. When used as a vaccine, the wild-type VLPs protected from...

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