| Literature DB >> 26826442 |
Larry Zeitlin1, Kevin J Whaley2, Gene G Olinger3, Michael Jacobs4, Robin Gopal5, Xiangguo Qiu6, Gary P Kobinger7.
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With the unprecedented scale of the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak, the clinical and scientific community scrambled to identify potential therapeutics for Ebola virus disease (EVD). Passive administration of antibodies has a long successful history for prophylaxis and therapy of a variety of infectious diseases, but the importance of antibodies in EVD has been unclear and is the subject of some debate. Recent studies in non-human primates have renewed interest in the potential of antibodies to impact EVD. Currently ongoing clinical evaluation of polyclonal and monoclonal antibody therapy in EVD patients in West Africa may finally offer a definitive answer to this debate.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 26826442 PMCID: PMC4902774 DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2016.01.006
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Opin Virol ISSN: 1879-6257 Impact factor: 7.090