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Vaccines that stimulate T cell immunity to HIV-1: the next step

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Findings obtained with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) monkey model have provided new evidence that stimulating effective CD8+ T cell immunity could provide protection, and in this Perspective the path forward for optimizing such responses in humans is explored.
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The search for a vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has many hurdles to overcome. Ideally, the stimulation of both broadly neutralizing antibodies and cell-mediated immune responses remains the best option, but no candidate in clinical trials at present has elicited such antibodies, and efficacy trials have not demonstrated any benefit for vaccines designed to stimulate immune responses of CD8(+) T cells. Findings obtained with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) monkey model have provided new evidence that stimulating effective CD8(+) T cell immunity could provide protection, and in this Perspective we explore the path forward for optimizing such responses in humans.

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Leishmaniasis in humans: drug or vaccine therapy?

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Structure-Based Vaccine Antigen Design.

TL;DR: Clinical proof-of-concept for structure-based vaccine design may first be achieved for respiratory syncytial virus, where conformation-dependent access to neutralization-sensitive epitopes on the fusion glycoprotein determines the capacity to induce potent neutralizing activity.
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Nonhuman primate models of human viral infections

TL;DR: Different NHP models are introduced, the similarities and differences between human and NHP immune systems are summarized, and important examples of human viruses that can be modelled in NHPs are discussed.
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The major genetic determinants of HIV-1 control affect HLA class I peptide presentation

Florencia Pereyra, +336 more
- 10 Dec 2010 - 
TL;DR: Differences in binding to viral peptide antigens by HLA may be the major factors underlying genetic differences between HIV controllers and progressors, and genome-wide association results implicate the nature of the HLA–viral peptide interaction as the major factor modulating durable control of HIV infection.
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Profound early control of highly pathogenic SIV by an effector memory T-cell vaccine

TL;DR: It is reported that SIV vaccines that include rhesus cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) vectors establish indefinitely persistent, high-frequency, SIV-specific effector memory T-cell (TEM) responses at potential sites of SIV replication in rhesu macaques and stringently control highly pathogenic SIVMAC239 infection early after mucosal challenge.
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