Immunization against genital herpes with a vaccine virus that has defects in productive and latent infection
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Immunization against genital herpes with a vaccine virus that has defects in productive and latent infection.
An effective vaccine for genital herpes has been difficult to achieve because of the limited efficacy of subunit vaccines and the safety concerns about live viruses. As an alternative approach, mutant herpes simplex virus strains that are replication-defective can induce protective immunity. To increase the level of safety and to prove that replication was not needed for immunization, we constr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.12.6994