Novel HIV vaccine regimen provides robust protection in non-human primates
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
A new study shows than an HIV-1 vaccine regimen, involving a viral vector boosted with a purified envelope protein, provided complete protection in half of the vaccinated non-human primates (NHPs) against a series of six repeated challenges with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a virus similar to HIV that infects NHPs.