Prior vaccination with rVSV-ZEBOV does not interfere with but improves efficacy of postexposure antibody treatment

oleh: Robert W. Cross, Zachary A. Bornholdt, Abhishek N. Prasad, Joan B. Geisbert, Viktoriya Borisevich, Krystle N. Agans, Daniel J. Deer, Kevin Melody, Karla A. Fenton, Heinz Feldmann, Armand Sprecher, Larry Zeitlin, Thomas W. Geisbert

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2020-07-01

Deskripsi

During an ongoing Ebola virus outbreak, infection before onset of protective immunity from vaccination is a possible scenario. Here the authors show in non-human primates that vaccination shortly before treatment with a monoclonal antibody does not negatively affect effectiveness of the antibody therapy.