Advances in antibody-based hiv-1 vaccines development
- Despite the great success of antiretroviral therapy, both in the treatment and prevention of HIV-1 infection, a vaccine is still urgently needed to end the epidemic. According to UNAIDS, in 2018, about 35% of HIV-1 infected persons did not receive antiretroviral therapy (ART), resulting in 1.7 million new infections in that year. One major reason for actual HIV-1 transmissions is the fact that about 20% of HIV- 1 infected persons do not know about their HIV-positive status and therefore are not on ART despite the potential high viral load linked to high risk of virus transmission. Therefore, in particular in countries with high HIV incidence, a preventive vaccine is required to reduce HIV transmissions in the general population. In this special issue of Vaccines, invited experts contribute a series of articles to the current understanding of antibody-based HIV-1 vaccine development. ...
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| Author: | Ursula Dietrich |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-531382 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8010044 |
| ISSN: | 2076-393X |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31991723 |
| Parent Title (English): | Vaccines |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| Place of publication: | Basel |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2020 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/01/25 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/03/18 |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 1, Art. 44 |
| Page Number: | 4 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 4 |
| Note: | This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 463785355 |
| Institutes: | Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Georg-Speyer-Haus |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
