Recent Advances in the Use of Plant Virus-Like Particles as Vaccines

Autor: Ina Balke, Andris Zeltins
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Viruses, Vol 12, Iss 3, p 270 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1999-4915
DOI: 10.3390/v12030270
Popis: Vaccination is one of the most effective public health interventions of the 20th century. All vaccines can be classified into different types, such as vaccines against infectious diseases, anticancer vaccines and vaccines against autoimmune diseases. In recent decades, recombinant technologies have enabled the design of experimental vaccines against a wide range of diseases using plant viruses and virus-like particles as central elements to stimulate protective and long-lasting immune responses. The analysis of recent publications shows that at least 97 experimental vaccines have been constructed based on plant viruses, including 71 vaccines against infectious agents, 16 anticancer vaccines and 10 therapeutic vaccines against autoimmune disorders. Several plant viruses have already been used for the development of vaccine platforms and have been tested in human and veterinary studies, suggesting that plant virus-based vaccines will be introduced into clinical and veterinary practice in the near future.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
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