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SUBMITTER: Parrino J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1892755 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parrino Janie J McCurdy Lewis H LH Larkin Brenda D BD Gordon Ingelise J IJ Rucker Steven E SE Enama Mary E ME Koup Richard A RA Roederer Mario M Bailer Robert T RT Moodie Zoe Z Gu Lin L Yan Lihan L Graham Barney S BS
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Modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) was evaluated as an alternative to Dryvax in vaccinia-naïve and vaccinia-immune adult volunteers. Subjects received intramuscular MVA or placebo followed by Dryvax challenge at 3 months. Two or more doses of MVA prior to Dryvax reduced severity of lesion formation, decreased magnitude and duration of viral shedding, and augmented post-Dryvax vaccinia-specific CD8(+) T cell responses and extracellular enveloped virus protein-specific antibody responses. MVA vaccinat ...[more]