Efficacy and effectiveness of an rVSV-vectored vaccine expressing Ebola surface glycoprotein: interim results from the Guinea ring vaccination cluster-randomised trial

AM Henao-Restrepo, IM Longini, M Egger, NE Dean… - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background A recombinant, replication-competent vesicular stomatitis virus-based vaccine
expressing a surface glycoprotein of Zaire Ebolavirus (rVSV-ZEBOV) is a promising Ebola …

Clinical development of Ebola vaccines

S Sridhar - Therapeutic advances in vaccines, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The ongoing outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa highlighted the lack of a
licensed drug or vaccine to combat the disease and has renewed the urgency to develop a …

VSV-EBOV rapidly protects macaques against infection with the 2014/15 Ebola virus outbreak strain

A Marzi, SJ Robertson, E Haddock, F Feldmann… - Science, 2015 - science.org
The latest Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic spread rapidly through Guinea, Sierra Leone, and
Liberia, creating a global public health crisis and accelerating the assessment of …

The effect of dose on the safety and immunogenicity of the VSV Ebola candidate vaccine: a randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 1/2 trial

A Huttner, JA Dayer, S Yerly, C Combescure… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2015 - thelancet.com
Background Safe and effective vaccines against Ebola could prevent or control outbreaks.
The safe use of replication-competent vaccines requires a careful dose-selection process …

Arenavirus glycan shield promotes neutralizing antibody evasion and protracted infection

R Sommerstein, L Flatz, MM Remy, P Malinge… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Considerations in the use of nonhuman primate models of Ebola virus and Marburg virus infection

TW Geisbert, JE Strong… - The Journal of infectious …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The filoviruses, Ebola virus and Marburg virus, are zoonotic pathogens that cause severe
hemorrhagic fever in humans and nonhuman primates (NHPs), with case-fatality rates …

Filoviruses: one of these things is (not) like the other

SM Anthony, SB Bradfute - Viruses, 2015 - mdpi.com
The family Filoviridae contains several of the most deadly pathogens known to date and the
current Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Western Africa, due to Ebola virus (EBOV) …

First-in-Human Evaluation of the Safety and Immunogenicity of a Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 gag Vaccine (HVTN 090)

JD Fuchs, I Frank, ML Elizaga, M Allen… - Open forum …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background. We report the first-in-human safety and immunogenicity evaluation of a highly
attenuated, replication-competent recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) human …

Preclinical development of inactivated rabies virus–based polyvalent vaccine against rabies and filoviruses

M Willet, D Kurup, A Papaneri, C Wirblich… - The Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We previously described the generation of a novel Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine based on
inactivated rabies virus (RABV) containing EBOV glycoprotein (GP) incorporated in the …

[PDF][PDF] Collaborative study to establish the 1st WHO international standard for BKV DNA for nucleic acid amplification technique (NAT)-based assays: Expert …

World Health Organization… - 2015 - apps.who.int
An international collaborative study was conducted to establish the 1 st WHO International
Standard for use in the standardisation of Polyoma virus BKV nucleic acid amplification …