| Literature DB >> 19535451 |
Jorge Reyes-del Valle1, Gregory Hodge, Michael B McChesney, Roberto Cattaneo.
Abstract
The widely used hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine is based on three doses of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) protein. We previously showed that vectored measles viruses (MV) expressing HBsAg retain measles vaccine function in monkeys but do not induce a protective anti-HBs response in all animals. We show here that a single dose of HBsAg protein following a three-dose vaccination regimen with an optimized HBsAg-expressing MV elicits protective anti-HBs responses in all four vaccinated Rhesus monkeys. Vaccination strategies coupling the effective, long-term immunity elicited by the high-coverage MV vaccine to prophylactic HBV immunity are discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19535451 PMCID: PMC2738202 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00906-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103