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Developing Zika vaccines: the lessons for disease X

There is an urgent need to develop vaccines against emerging diseases, including those caused by pathogens that are currently unknown to cause human disease, termed ‘disease X’. Here, Zika virus infection is considered as an example of disease X. The speed of Zika vaccine development provides optimi...

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Autor principal: Barrett, Alan D. T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6019790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29945653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-018-0561-2
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spelling pubmed-60197902018-07-06 Developing Zika vaccines: the lessons for disease X Barrett, Alan D. T. Genome Med Comment There is an urgent need to develop vaccines against emerging diseases, including those caused by pathogens that are currently unknown to cause human disease, termed ‘disease X’. Here, Zika virus infection is considered as an example of disease X. The speed of Zika vaccine development provides optimism for our ability to prepare vaccines against unknown pathogens. BioMed Central 2018-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6019790/ /pubmed/29945653 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-018-0561-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6019790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29945653
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