Arenavirus glycan shield promotes neutralizing antibody evasion and protracted infection.
Arenaviruses such as Lassa virus (LASV) can cause severe hemorrhagic fever in humans. As a major impediment to vaccine development, delayed and weak neutralizing antibody (nAb) responses represent a unifying characteristic of both natural infection and all vaccine candidates tested to date. To inves...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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