Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy review clearance of simian immunodeficiency virus infection from macaques by immunization with SIV proteins encoded in a rhesus cytomegalovirus vector.

Links for this episode:

• Immune clearance of SIV infection (Nature)
• Rhesus CMV vectors (Nature Medicine)
• Types of memory T cells (WikiPedia)
• Goldilocks approach to vaccines (Scilogs)
• Chimeric HA influenza vaccine (J Virol)
• Influenza vaccine matched vs mismatched (BMC Medicine)
• Letters read on TWiV 254

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