Further protection against antigenic drift of influenza virus in a ferret model by DNA vaccination

Vaccine

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 865-868

  Donnelly, John J ^a   Friedman, Arthur ^a   Ulmer, Jeffrey B ^a   Liu, Margaret A ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenic drift; DNA vaccine; Ferret; Influenza

Indexed keywords

DNA VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; NUCLEOPROTEIN; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; IMMUNIZATION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CHICKENS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, VIRAL; FERRETS; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION TESTS; HEMAGGLUTININ GLYCOPROTEINS, INFLUENZA VIRUS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; VACCINES, DNA; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS;

EID: 0030802996     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(96)00268-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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