Advances in the development of influenza virus vaccines

F Krammer, P Palese - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Influenza virus infections are a major public health concern and cause significant morbidity
and mortality worldwide. Current influenza virus vaccines are an effective countermeasure …

Influenza vaccines: challenges and solutions

K Houser, K Subbarao - Cell host & microbe, 2015 - cell.com
Vaccination is the best method for the prevention and control of influenza. Vaccination can
reduce illness and lessen severity of infection. This review focuses on how currently …

Controlled human infection models to accelerate vaccine development

RKM Choy, AL Bourgeois… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The timelines for developing vaccines against infectious diseases are lengthy, and often
vaccines that reach the stage of large phase 3 field trials fail to provide the desired level of …

Virus-specific T cells as correlate of (cross-) protective immunity against influenza

AF Altenburg, GF Rimmelzwaan, RD de Vries - Vaccine, 2015 - Elsevier
Since inactivated influenza vaccines mainly confer protective immunity by inducing strain-
specific antibodies to the viral hemagglutinin, these vaccines only afford protection against …

COVID-19 vaccine platforms: Delivering on a promise?

M Verdecia, JF Kokai-Kun, M Kibbey… - Human vaccines & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 has brought into sharp focus the
need for a vaccine to prevent this disease. Vaccines have saved millions of lives since their …

[HTML][HTML] Vector-based genetically modified vaccines: Exploiting Jenner's legacy

B Ramezanpour, I Haan, A Osterhaus, E Claassen - Vaccine, 2016 - Elsevier
The global vaccine market is diverse while facing a plethora of novel developments. Genetic
modification (GM) techniques facilitate the design of'smarter'vaccines. For many of the major …

Priorities for developing respiratory syncytial virus vaccines in different target populations

SB Drysdale, RS Barr, CS Rollier, CA Green… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
The development of an effective vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been
hampered by major difficulties that occurred in the 1960s when a formalin-inactivated …

Polysaccharide-based chromatographic adsorbents for virus purification and viral clearance

GA Junter, L Lebrun - Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
Viruses still pose a significant threat to human and animal health worldwide. In the fight
against viral infections, high-purity viral stocks are needed for manufacture of safer vaccines …

[HTML][HTML] Smad4 promotes differentiation of effector and circulating memory CD8 T cells but is dispensable for tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells

Y Hu, YT Lee, SM Kaech, B Garvy… - The Journal of …, 2015 - journals.aai.org
Tissue-resident memory CD8 T cells are a unique subset of virus-specific CTLs that bolster
local immune responses after becoming lodged in previously infected tissues. These cells …

[HTML][HTML] Why is co-infection with influenza virus and bacteria so difficult to control?

LS Cauley, AT Vella - Discovery medicine, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Influenza viruses are genetically labile pathogens which avoid immune detection by
constantly changing their coat proteins. Most human infections are caused by mildly …