Single-dose replication-defective VSV-based Nipah virus vaccines provide protection from lethal challenge in Syrian hamsters
Lo MK, Bird BH, Chattopadhyay A, Drew CP, Martin BE, Coleman JD, Rose JK, Nichol ST, Spiropoulou CF. Single-dose replication-defective VSV-based Nipah virus vaccines provide protection from lethal challenge in Syrian hamsters. Antiviral Research 2013, 101: 26-29. PMID: 24184127, PMCID: PMC3874889, DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.10.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFatal human encephalitisSingle-dose protectionReplication-defective vesicular stomatitis virusSafety profileLethal challengeSingle doseVirus vaccineEnhanced safety profileHuman encephalitisVaccine vectorVesicular stomatitis virusSyrian hamstersNiV fusionNipah virusBat reservoirsStomatitis virusAttachment glycoproteinHamstersVirusEncephalitisVaccineDose