Progress towards a hepatitis C virus vaccine
New drugs to treat hepatitis C are expected to be approved over the next few years which promise to cure nearly all patients. However, due to issues of expected drug resistance, suboptimal activity against diverse hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes and especially because of their extremely high cost,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26038445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/emi.2013.79 |
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author | Man John Law, Lok Landi, Abdolamir Magee, Wendy C Lorne Tyrrell, D Houghton, Michael |
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description | New drugs to treat hepatitis C are expected to be approved over the next few years which promise to cure nearly all patients. However, due to issues of expected drug resistance, suboptimal activity against diverse hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes and especially because of their extremely high cost, it is unlikely that these HCV drugs will substantially reduce the world's HCV carrier population of around 170 million in the near future or the estimated global incidence of millions of new HCV infections. For these reasons, there is an urgent need to develop a prophylactic HCV vaccine and also to determine if therapeutic vaccines can aid in the treatment of chronically infected patients. After much early pessimism on the prospects for an effective prophylactic HCV vaccine, our recent knowledge of immune correlates of protection combined with the demonstrated immunogenicity and protective animal efficacies of various HCV vaccine candidates now allows for realistic optimism. This review summarizes the current rationale and status of clinical and experimental HCV vaccine candidates based on the elicitation of cross-neutralizing antibodies and broad cellular immune responses to this highly diverse virus. |
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spelling | pubmed-39245562014-02-14 Progress towards a hepatitis C virus vaccine Man John Law, Lok Landi, Abdolamir Magee, Wendy C Lorne Tyrrell, D Houghton, Michael Emerg Microbes Infect Review New drugs to treat hepatitis C are expected to be approved over the next few years which promise to cure nearly all patients. However, due to issues of expected drug resistance, suboptimal activity against diverse hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes and especially because of their extremely high cost, it is unlikely that these HCV drugs will substantially reduce the world's HCV carrier population of around 170 million in the near future or the estimated global incidence of millions of new HCV infections. For these reasons, there is an urgent need to develop a prophylactic HCV vaccine and also to determine if therapeutic vaccines can aid in the treatment of chronically infected patients. After much early pessimism on the prospects for an effective prophylactic HCV vaccine, our recent knowledge of immune correlates of protection combined with the demonstrated immunogenicity and protective animal efficacies of various HCV vaccine candidates now allows for realistic optimism. This review summarizes the current rationale and status of clinical and experimental HCV vaccine candidates based on the elicitation of cross-neutralizing antibodies and broad cellular immune responses to this highly diverse virus. Nature Publishing Group 2013-11 2013-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3924556/ /pubmed/26038445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/emi.2013.79 Text en Copyright © 2013 Shanghai Shangyixun Cultural Communication Co., Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 |
spellingShingle | Review Man John Law, Lok Landi, Abdolamir Magee, Wendy C Lorne Tyrrell, D Houghton, Michael Progress towards a hepatitis C virus vaccine |
title | Progress towards a hepatitis C virus vaccine |
title_full | Progress towards a hepatitis C virus vaccine |
title_fullStr | Progress towards a hepatitis C virus vaccine |
title_full_unstemmed | Progress towards a hepatitis C virus vaccine |
title_short | Progress towards a hepatitis C virus vaccine |
title_sort | progress towards a hepatitis c virus vaccine |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924556/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26038445 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/emi.2013.79 |
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