Challenges to the development of vaccines to hepatitis C virus that elicit neutralizing antibodies.
Despite 20 years of research, a vaccine to prevent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has not been developed. A vaccine to prevent HCV will need to induce broadly reactive immunity able to prevent infection by the 7 genetically and antigenically distinct genotypes circulating world-wide. Hepatitis C...
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-07-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00329/full |