Title: Smallpox Vaccines: Looking Beyond the Next Generation
Abstract:Smallpox may be gone, but poxvirus research—spurred by the specter of bioterrorism—is thriving. In the May issue of the Journal of Virology, a team of U.S. Army researchers reports that a new DNA vacc...Smallpox may be gone, but poxvirus research—spurred by the specter of bioterrorism—is thriving. In the May issue of the Journal of Virology, a team of U.S. Army researchers reports that a new DNA vaccine can protect monkeys from what would otherwise be a lethal dose of monkeypox. The results are “very encouraging,” says Mariano Esteban, a poxvirus researcher at the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain, adding that they could prelude a safer generation of smallpox vaccines for humans to replace the old standbys from the smallpox eradication era. But DNA vaccines could be preempted: By the time they are developed, a much safer derivative of the current vaccine, called modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA), may be in production.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-05-06
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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