Understanding Live-Attenuated Vaccines - June 2008. What Can AIDS Vaccine Researchers Learn From Live-Attenuated SIV Vaccines?

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2008
Document Type:
Briefing
Theme:
Health
Authors:
IAVI

Abstract

Live vaccines are artificially weakened versions of the organisms against which they protect. Live AIDS vaccines cannot be tested in man because of fears the weakened strain could revert to normal and cause disease. This factsheet outlines the useful information that has been gathered from primate studies of live vaccines.

Citation

IAVI. Understanding Live-Attenuated Vaccines - June 2008. What Can AIDS Vaccine Researchers Learn From Live-Attenuated SIV Vaccines? (2008)

Published 1 January 2008
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