Human metapneumovirus fusion protein vaccines that are immunogenic and protective in cotton rats

Journal of Virology

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 698-707

  Cseke, Gabriella ^a   Wright, David W ^a   Tollefson, Sharon J ^a   Johnson, Joyce E ^a   Crowe Jr , James E ^a,b   Williams, John V ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON RAT; EXPRESSION VECTOR; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; IMMUNOGENICITY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; TH2 CELL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS ETIOLOGY; VIRUS SHEDDING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CELL LINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; LUNG; METAPNEUMOVIRUS; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SIGMODONTINAE; VIRAL FUSION PROTEINS; VIRAL VACCINES;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; MAMMALIA; PARAMYXOVIRIDAE; SIGMODON;

EID: 33846100643     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00844-06     Document Type: Article

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