| Literature DB >> 21320541 |
Danher Wang1, Andreas Suhrbier, Adam Penn-Nicholson, Jan Woraratanadharm, Joy Gardner, Min Luo, Thuy T Le, Itaru Anraku, Michael Sakalian, David Einfeld, John Y Dong.
Abstract
Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne alphavirus, recently caused the largest epidemic ever seen for this virus. Chikungunya disease primarily manifests as a painful and debilitating arthralgia/arthritis, and no effective drug or vaccine is currently available. Here we describe a recombinant chikungunya virus vaccine comprising a non-replicating complex adenovirus vector encoding the structural polyprotein cassette of chikungunya virus. A single immunisation with this vaccine consistently induced high titres of anti-chikungunya virus antibodies that neutralised both an old Asian isolate and a Réunion Island isolate from the recent epidemic. The vaccine also completely protected mice against viraemia and arthritic disease caused by both virus isolates.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21320541 PMCID: PMC3061842 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.01.108
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vaccine ISSN: 0264-410X Impact factor: 3.641