Rapid development of an efficacious swine vaccine for novel H1N1

Ryan Vander Veen, Kurt Kamrud, Mark Mogler, Alan T. Loynachan, Jerry McVicker, Peter Berglund, Gary Owens, Sarah Timberlake, Whitney Lewis, Jonathan Smith, D. L.Hank Harris

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Abstract

Recombinant hemagglutinin (HA) from a novel H1N1 influenza strain was produced using an alphavirus replicon expression system. The recombinant HA vaccine was produced more rapidly than traditional vaccines, and was evaluated as a swine vaccine candidate at different doses in a challenge model utilizing the homologous influenza A/California/04/2009 (H1N1) strain. Vaccinated animals showed significantly higher specific antibody response, reduced lung lesions and viral shedding, and higher average daily gain when compared to non-vaccinated control animals. These data demonstrate that the swine vaccine candidate was efficacious at all of the evaluated doses.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberecurrents.RRN1123
JournalPLoS Currents
Issue numberOCT
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)

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