HIV-1 vaccine immunogen design strategies

Virology Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mann, Jaclyn K ^a   Ndung'u, Thumbi ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFECTION BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broadly neutralising antibodies; HIV 1 vaccine; Immunogen design; T cell immunogens

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; REVIEW; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

AIDS VACCINES; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 84924195208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12985-014-0221-0     Document Type: Review

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