A single-dose live attenuated chimeric vaccine candidate against Zika virus
Abstract The mosquito-borne Zika virus is an emerging pathogen from the Flavivirus genus for which there are no approved antivirals or vaccines. Using the clinically validated PDK-53 dengue virus vaccine strain as a backbone, we created a chimeric dengue/Zika virus, VacDZ, as a live attenuated vacci...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2021-01-01
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Series: | npj Vaccines |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541-021-00282-y |