Vesicular stomatitis virus-based Ebola vaccine is well-tolerated and protects immunocompromised nonhuman primates

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Geisbert, Thomas W ^a,b,c,d,e   Daddario DiCaprio, Kathleen M ^a,c,e   Lewis, Mark G ^f   Geisbert, Joan B ^a,e   Grolla, Allen ^f   Leung, Anders ^g   Paragas, Jason ^d   Matthias, Lennox ^f   Smith, Mark A ^h   Jones, Steven M ^g,i   Hensley, Lisa E ^e   Feldmann, Heinz ^g,i,j   Jahrling, Peter B ^d  

^a National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories Institute   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e BIOQUAL INC   (United States)

^f BIOQUAL   (United States)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^h UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^j Division of Intramural Research   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EBOLA VACCINE; PLACEBO; VIRUS GLYCOPROTEIN; VIRUS VECTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EBOLA VIRUS; EVALUATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE STATUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHESUS MONKEY; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; ANIMAL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TOXICITY; GENE VECTOR; MACACA; MONKEY DISEASE; PRIMATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESICULAR STOMATITIS;

ANIMALIA; EBOLA VIRUS; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; SIMIAN-HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS;

ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG TOXICITY; EBOLA VACCINES; GENETIC VECTORS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES; SIMIAN ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESICULAR STOMATITIS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 57149112519     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000225     Document Type: Article

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