Lassa Virus Vaccine
Protective Lassa virus epitopes restricted by HLA-A2 have been identified
Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 25th, 2006
According to scientists in the United States, "Recovery from Lassa virus (LASV) infection usually precedes the appearance of neutralizing antibodies, indicating that cellular immunity plays a primary role in viral clearance. To date, the role of LASV-specific CD8(+) T cells has not been evaluated in humans."
J. Botten and colleagues at Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla wrote, "To facilitate such studies, we utilized a predictive algorithm to identify candidate HLA-A2 supertype epitopes from the LASV nucleoprotein and glycoprotein precursor (GPC) genes. We identified three...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-10-25)
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