Therapeutic treatment of Nipah virus infection in nonhuman primates with a neutralizing human monoclonal antibody

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 242, 2014, Pages

  Geisbert, Thomas W ^a,b   Mire, Chad E ^a,b   Geisbert, Joan B ^a,b   Chan, Yee Peng ^c   Agans, Krystle N ^a,b   Feldmann, Friederike ^d   Fenton, Karla A ^a,b   Zhu, Zhongyu ^e   Dimitrov, Dimiter S ^e   Scott, Dana P ^d   Bossart, Katharine N ^b   Feldmann, Heinz ^d   Broder, Christopher C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

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

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY M102.4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NIPAH VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS TITRATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; NIPAH VIRUS; SERODIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; NIPAH VIRUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84903761829     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3008929     Document Type: Article

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