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Recent findings from National Institute of Infectious Disease, Infectious Diseases Department highlight research in vaccines
May 21st, 2008
A report, 'Vero cell-derived inactivated West Nile (WN) vaccine induces protective immunity against lethal WN virus infection in mice and shows a facilitated neutralizing antibody response in mice previously immunized with Japanese encephalitis vaccine,' is newly published data in Virology. "A novel Vero cell-derived inactivated WN vaccine (WN-VAX) was prepared from virus strain NY99-35262. Two immunizations with WN-VAX induced high levels of neutralizing antibody to WN virus," scientists writing in the journal Virology report. "All immunized mice were protected against challenge with a lethal dose of WN virus. No WN viremia was detected, and the level of...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-05-21)
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