Pangenomic and immunoinformatics based analysis of Nipah virus revealed CD4 and CD8 T-Cell epitopes as potential vaccine candidates.

Nipah (NiV) is the zoonotic deadly bat-borne virus that causes neurological and respiratory infections which ultimately lead to death. There are 706 infected cases reported up till now especially in Asia, out of which 409 patients died. There is no vaccine and effective treatment available for NiV infections and we have to timely design such strategies as world could not bear another pandemic situation.