Optimizing HIV-1-specific CD8+ T-cell induction by recombinant BCG in prime-boost regimens with heterologous viral vectors.

The desire to induce HIV-1-specific responses soon after birth to prevent breast milk transmission of HIV-1 led us to propose a vaccine regimen which primes HIV-1-specific T cells using a recombinant Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (rBCG) vaccine. Because attenuated live bacterial vacci...

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Main Authors: Hopkins, R, Bridgeman, A, Bourne, C, Mbewe-Mvula, A, Sadoff, J, Both, G, Joseph, J, Fulkerson, J, Hanke, T
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2011