Horizontal transmission of endemic viruses among rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta): Implications for human cytomegalovirus vaccine/challenge design
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DOI: 10.1111/jmp.12621
Abstract: Rhesus macaques are natural hosts to multiple viruses including rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV), rhesus rhadinovirus (RRV), and Simian Foamy Virus (SFV). While viral infections are ubiquitous, viral transmissions to uninfected animals are incompletely defined. Management procedures… read more here.
Keywords: rhesus; cytomegalovirus; rhesus macaques; transmission ... See more keywords
Do coronavirus vaccine challenge trials have a distinctive generalisability problem?
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DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2020-107109
Abstract: Notwithstanding the success of conventional field trials for vaccines against COVID-19, human challenge trials (HCTs) that could obtain more information about these and about other vaccines and further strategies against it are about to start… read more here.
Keywords: trials distinctive; generalisability; challenge trials; challenge ... See more keywords
The tuberculosis vaccine challenge
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DOI: 10.2471/blt.23.020523
Abstract: The development of effective tuberculosis vaccines requires significant advances in knowledge and methods and a massive increase in investment. Tatum Anderson reports. read more here.
Keywords: tuberculosis; tuberculosis vaccine; vaccine challenge;