The history of vaccination against cytomegalovirus
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Cytomegalovirus vaccine development started in the 1970s with attenuated strains. In the 1980s, one of the strains was shown to be safe and effective in renal transplant patients. Then, attention switched to glycoprotein gB, which was shown to give moderate but transient protection against acquisition of the virus by women. The identification of the pp65 tegument protein as the principal target of cellular immune responses resulted in new approaches, particularly DNA, plasmids to protect hematogenous stem cell recipients. The subsequent discovery of the pentameric protein complex that generates most neutralizing antibodies led to efforts to incorporate that complex into vaccines. At this point, there are many candidate CMV vaccines, including live recombinants, replication-defective virus, DNA plasmids, soluble pentameric proteins, peptides, virus-like particles and vectored envelope proteins.
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- Authors
- Plotkin, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- Corresponding author
- Plotkin, Stanley
- ORCID
- Plotkin, Stanley
- Venue
- Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- Published
- 2015-03-20
- Volume
- 204
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 247-254
- ISSN
- 0044-3077 (ISSN-L)
- 0300-8584
- 1432-1831
- OpenAlex
- W2155955448
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- 1.65
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Keywords
- cytomegalovirus vaccine, vaccine development history, kidney transplant recipients, cell-mediated immunity, DNA plasmid vaccine, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, neutralizing antibodies, replication-defective virus, virus-like particles, envelope protein, vaccine candidate
- MeSH terms
- Antibodies, Viral, Cytomegalovirus Infections, Cytomegalovirus, Humans, Vaccination, Cytomegalovirus Vaccines, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century, Antibodies, Neutralizing
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