The identification of mechanisms that prevent infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) would facilitate the development of an effective AIDS vaccine. In time-course experiments, protection against detectable superinfection with homologous wild-type SIV was achieved within 21 days of inoculation with live attenuated SIV, prior to the development of detectable anti-SIV humoral immunity. Partial protection against superinfection was achieved within 10 days of inoculation with live attenuated SIV, prior to the development of detectable anti-SIV humoral and cellular immunity. Furthermore, co-inoculation of live attenuated SIV with wild-type SIV resulted in a significant reduction in peak virus loads compared to controls that received wild-type SIV alone. These findings imply that innate immunity or non-immune mechanisms are a significant component of early protection against superinfection conferred by inoculation with live attenuated SIV.
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Front Immunol
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State Key Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
Vaccination remains the sole effective strategy for combating Japanese encephalitis (JE). Both inactivated and live attenuated vaccines exhibit robust immunogenicity. However, the production of these conventional vaccine modalities necessitates extensive cultivation of the pathogen, incurring substantial costs and presenting significant biosafety risks.
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Environmental Science for Sustainable Development, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Objectives: To investigate the pathogenicity of feline herpesvirus-1 (FHV-1) to the cornea, FHV-1 strains isolated from feline eyes with dendritic ulcers were subjected to genomic analysis to determine whether FHV-1 vaccine strains are involved in the formation of dendritic ulcers.
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Food Safety and Enteric Pathogens Research Unit, National Animal Disease Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Ames, IA, United States.
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The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China.
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Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, 10-748, Poland.
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