HIV/AIDS

Research from University of California provides new data on HIV/AIDS

Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 1st, 2009

According to a study from the United States, "A vaccine for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is desperately needed to control the AIDS pandemic. To address this problem, we constructed single-cycle simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) pseudotyped with the glycoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus and expressing different levels of gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) as a potential vaccine strategy."

"We previously showed that IFN-gamma expression by pseudotyped SIVs does not alter viral single-cycle infectivity. T cells primed with dendritic cells transduced by pseudotyped SIVs expressing high levels of IFN-gamma had stronger T-cell responses than those primed...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-04-01)

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