Tick-Borne Encephalitis Vaccine

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Single-dose vaccine for tick-borne encephalitis:

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus is the most important human pathogen transmitted by ticks in Eurasia. Inactivated vaccines are available but require multiple doses and frequent boosters to induce and maintain immunity. Thus far, the goal of developing a safe, live attenuated vaccine effective after a single dose has remained elusive. Here we used a replication-defective (single-cycle) flavivirus platform, RepliVax, to generate a safe, single-dose TBE vaccine. Several RepliVax-TBE candidates attenuated by a deletion in the capsid gene were constructed using different flavivirus backbones containing the envelope genes of TBE virus. RepliVax-TBE based on a West Nile virus backbone (RV-WN/TBE) grew more....

 

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/32/13103.abstract?maxtoshow=&hits=8&RESULTFORMAT=&andorexacttitle=and&andorexacttitleabs=and&fulltext=tick&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&usestrictdates=yes&resourcetype=HWCIT&ct