Jump-starting the immune system: prime–boosting comes of age

DL Woodland - Trends in immunology, 2004 - cell.com
A major challenge for immunologists has been the development of vaccines designed to
emphasize cellular immune responses. One particularly promising approach is the prime …

Nonhuman primate models and the failure of the Merck HIV-1 vaccine in humans

DI Watkins, DR Burton, EG Kallas, JP Moore… - Nature medicine, 2008 - nature.com
Abstract The adenovirus type 5 (Ad5)-based vaccine developed by Merck failed to either
prevent HIV-1 infection or suppress viral load in subsequently infected subjects in the STEP …

Effector memory T cell responses are associated with protection of rhesus monkeys from mucosal simian immunodeficiency virus challenge

SG Hansen, C Vieville, N Whizin, L Coyne-Johnson… - Nature medicine, 2009 - nature.com
The rapid onset of massive, systemic viral replication during primary HIV or simian
immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection and the immune evasion capabilities of these viruses …

Insufficient Production and Tissue Delivery of CD4+Memory T Cells in Rapidly Progressive Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

LJ Picker, SI Hagen, R Lum… - The Journal of …, 2004 - rupress.org
The mechanisms linking human immunodeficiency virus replication to the progressive
immunodeficiency of acquired immune deficiency syndrome are controversial, particularly …

HIV vaccines

AJ McMichael - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
A prophylactic vaccine for HIV-1 is badly needed. Despite 20 years of effort, it is still a long
way off. However, considerable progress has been made in understanding the problem. The …

Vaccinia vectors as candidate vaccines: the development of modified vaccinia virus Ankara for antigen delivery

G Sutter, C Staib - Current Drug Targets-Infectious Disorders, 2003 - ingentaconnect.com
Vaccinia viruses engineered to express foreign genes are powerful vectors for production of
recombinant proteins. Originating from highly efficacious vaccines securing world-wide …

Attenuation of simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmac239 infection by prophylactic immunization with DNA and recombinant adenoviral vaccine vectors expressing …

DR Casimiro, F Wang, WA Schleif, X Liang… - Journal of …, 2005 - journals.asm.org
The prophylactic efficacy of DNA and replication-incompetent adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5)
vaccine vectors expressing simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) Gag was examined in …

HIV vaccine design: insights from live attenuated SIV vaccines

WC Koff, PR Johnson, DI Watkins, DR Burton… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
Abstract The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative has established a consortium to elucidate
mechanisms of protection conferred by live attenuated simian immunodeficiency virus …

Premature induction of an immunosuppressive regulatory T cell response during acute simian immunodeficiency virus infection

JD Estes, Q Li, MR Reynolds… - The Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Here we report the results of an investigation into the possibility that one mechanism
responsible for the establishment of persistent human immunodeficiency virus infection is an …

HIV vaccines 1983–2003

AJ McMichael, T Hanke - Nature medicine, 2003 - nature.com
Twenty years after the discovery of HIV, there is still no vaccine. This year, an envelope
vaccine aimed at stimulating neutralizing antibodies was unable to protect against infection …