Human monoclonal antibodies as candidate therapeutics against emerging viruses

Frontiers of Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 462-470

  Jin, Yujia ^a   Lei, Cheng ^a   Hu, Dan ^a   Dimitrov, Dimiter S ^b   Ying, Tianlei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola virus; emerging infectious diseases; human monoclonal antibodies; MERS CoV; SARS CoV

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; TRENDS; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DRUG DISCOVERY; HUMANS; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUS PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 85034572801     PISSN: 20950217     EISSN: 20950225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11684-017-0596-6     Document Type: Review

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