Basic & Clinical Medicine ›› 2013, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (7): 927-930.

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Review of study on Dengue virus-like particles vaccine

  

  • Received:2012-06-15 Revised:2012-09-25 Online:2013-07-05 Published:2013-06-26

Abstract: The disease caused by Dengue virus is an acute life-threatening mosquito-borne infectious disease. So far, an effective and safe vaccine for dengue is not yet available. Recently a new virus-like particles vaccine can be capable of inducing the vaccinated mice to produce neutralizing antibody, and long-lasting virus-specific memory T lymphocytes. What more, it also can be widely explored by using yeast expression system. Its special priorities make it become a hopeful ideal dengue vaccine.

Key words: dengue virus, virus-like particles, vaccine, mosquito-borne infectious disease