[HTML][HTML] New vaccine technologies to combat outbreak situations

S Rauch, E Jasny, KE Schmidt, B Petsch - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Ever since the development of the first vaccine more than 200 years ago, vaccinations have
greatly decreased the burden of infectious diseases worldwide, famously leading to the …

The vesicular stomatitis virus-based Ebola virus vaccine: From concept to clinical trials

E Suder, W Furuyama, H Feldmann… - Human vaccines & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The devastating Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic in West Africa in 2013–2016 accelerated the
progress of several vaccines and antivirals through clinical trials, including the replication …

[HTML][HTML] Post-exposure treatments for Ebola and Marburg virus infections

RW Cross, CE Mire, H Feldmann… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
The filoviruses—Ebola virus and Marburg virus—cause lethal haemorrhagic fever in
humans and non-human primates (NHPs). Filoviruses present a global health threat both as …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in designing and developing vaccines, drugs, and therapies to counter Ebola virus

K Dhama, K Karthik, R Khandia, S Chakraborty… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Ebola virus (EBOV), a member of the family Filoviridae, is responsible for causing Ebola
virus disease (EVD)(formerly named Ebola hemorrhagic fever). This is a severe, often fatal …

[HTML][HTML] A VSV-based Zika virus vaccine protects mice from lethal challenge

J Emanuel, J Callison, KA Dowd, TC Pierson… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Infection with Zika virus (ZIKV) is commonly mild in humans but has been associated with
alarming negative health outcomes including Guillain-Barré syndrome in adults and …

Prevention of Ebola virus disease through vaccination: where we are in 2018

Y Lévy, C Lane, P Piot, AH Beavogui, M Kieh, B Leigh… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
In 2016, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone succeeded in interrupting the longest epidemic
of Ebola virus disease in global history. 1 Control of the epidemic was primarily achieved by …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of antibody persistence across doses and continents after single-dose rVSV-ZEBOV vaccination for Ebola virus disease: an observational cohort …

A Huttner, ST Agnandji, C Combescure… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background The recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus (rVSV) vaccine expressing the Zaire
Ebola virus (ZEBOV) glycoprotein is efficacious in the weeks following single-dose injection …

The Sierra Leone trial to introduce a vaccine against Ebola: an evaluation of rVSV∆ G-ZEBOV-GP vaccine tolerability and safety during the West Africa Ebola outbreak

M Samai, JF Seward, ST Goldstein… - The Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The West Africa Ebola epidemic stimulated rapid implementation of Ebola vaccine
trials in the 3 highly affected countries. In Sierra Leone, we studied the recombinant …

[HTML][HTML] Ethical considerations in controlled human malaria infection studies in low resource settings: experiences and perceptions of study participants in a malaria …

M Njue, P Njuguna, MC Kapulu, G Sanga… - Wellcome open …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: The range and amount of volunteer infection studies, known as Controlled
Human Infection Model (CHMI) studies, in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) is …

Ebola: lessons on vaccine development

H Feldmann, F Feldmann, A Marzi - Annual review of …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The West African Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic has fast-tracked countermeasures for this
rare, emerging zoonotic pathogen. Until 2013–2014, most EBOV vaccine candidates were …