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Systems analysis of MVA-C induced immune response reveals its significance as a vaccine candidate against HIV/AIDS of clade C

Gómez, Carmen Elena ; Perdiguero, Beatriz ; Jiménez, Victoria ; Filali-Mouhim, Abdelali ; Ghneim, Khader ; Haddad, Elias K. ; Quakkerlaar, Esther D. ; Delaloye, Julie ; Harari, Alexandre ; Roger, Thierry ; Dunhen, Thomas ; Sékaly, Rafick P. ; Melief, Cornelis J. M. ; Calandra, Thierry ; Sallusto, Federica ; Lanzavecchia, Antonio ; Wagner, Ralf ; Pantaleo, Giuseppe ; Esteban, Mariano

In: Plos one, 2012, vol. 7, no. 4, p. e35485

Based on the partial efficacy of the HIV/AIDS Thai trial (RV144) with a canarypox vector prime and protein boost, attenuated poxvirus recombinants expressing HIV-1 antigens are increasingly sought as vaccine candidates against HIV/AIDS. Here we describe using systems analysis the biological and immunological characteristics of the attenuated vaccinia virus Ankara strain expressing the HIV-1...