New kids on the block: RNA-based influenza virus vaccines

Vaccines

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2018, Pages

  Scorza, Francesco Berlanda ^a   Pardi, Norbert ^b  

^a PATH Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Infectious disease; Influenza virus; RNA vaccine

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; HEMAGGLUTININ; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MATRIX PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; POLYETHYLENEIMINE; RNA VACCINE; SOLID LIPID NANOPARTICLE;

CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EDEMA; HEMAGGLUTINATION INHIBITION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; RABIES; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THROMBUS; VACCINATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ZIKA VIRUS;

EID: 85046470520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2076393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines6020020     Document Type: Review

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