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SUBMITTER: Langley JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5225248 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Langley Joanne M JM Aggarwal Naresh N Toma Azhar A Halperin Scott A SA McNeil Shelly A SA Fissette Laurence L Dewé Walthere W Leyssen Maarten M Toussaint Jean-François JF Dieussaert Ilse I
The Journal of infectious diseases 20160929 1
<h4>Background</h4> Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of childhood bronchiolitis and pneumonia, particularly in early infancy. Immunization of pregnant women could boost preexisting immune responses, providing passive protection to newborns through placental transfer of anti-RSV antibody.<h4>Methods</h4> In this first-in-humans clinical trial of a purified recombinant RSV protein F vaccine engineered to preferentially maintain prefusion conformation (RSV-PreF), 128 healthy men ...[more]