Progress toward a universal H5N1 vaccine: a recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara-expressing trivalent hemagglutinin vaccine.

The rapid evolution of new sublineages of H5N1 influenza poses the greatest challenge in control of H5N1 infection by currently existing vaccines. To overcome this, an MVAtor vector expressing three H5HA antigens A/Vietnam/1203/04, A/Indonesia/669/06 and A/Anhui/01/05 (MVAtor-tri-HA vector) was deve...

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Main Authors: Mookkan Prabakaran, Sonja Leyrer, Fang He, Sebastian Auer, Subaschandrabose R Kumar, Kathrin Kindsmueller, Nutan Mytle, Joerg Schneider, Stephen Lockhart, Jimmy Kwang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4167863?pdf=render