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HIV/AIDS
New HIV/AIDS findings from T.W. Geisbert and co-researchers published
February 11th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "Ebola virus (EBOV) is a significant human pathogen that presents a public health concern as an emerging/re-emerging virus and as a potential biological weapon. Substantial progress has been made over the last decade in developing candidate preventive vaccines that can protect nonhuman primates against EBOV." "Among these prospects, a vaccine based on recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is particularly robust, as it can also confer protection when administered as a postexposure treatment. A concern that has been raised regarding the replication-competent VSV vectors that express EBOV glycoproteins is how...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-02-11)
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