| Literature DB >> 19669259 |
Rakesh Aggarwal1, Shahid Jameel.
Abstract
Hepatitis E is an emerging disease in resource-poor regions of the world. It is estimated that about 2 billion people live in areas endemic for this disease. The inability to reproducibly culture hepatitis E virus makes it impossible to develop traditional live or inactivated vaccines. However, significant progress has been made in developing and testing recombinant subunit vaccines based on the viral capsid protein. This review summarizes these efforts.Entities:
Year: 2008 PMID: 19669259 PMCID: PMC2716888 DOI: 10.1007/s12072-008-9071-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hepatol Int ISSN: 1936-0533 Impact factor: 6.047