Postexposure treatment of Marburg virus infection

Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Jul;16(7):1119-22. doi: 10.3201/eid1607.100159.

Abstract

Rhesus monkeys are protected from disease when a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus-based vaccine is administered 20-30 min after infection with Marburg virus. We protected 5/6 monkeys when this vaccine was given 24 h after challenge; 2/6 animals were protected when the vaccine was administered 48 h postinfection.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Macaca mulatta
  • Marburg Virus Disease / prevention & control*
  • Marburgvirus / immunology*
  • Monkey Diseases / prevention & control*
  • Vaccines, Synthetic / immunology
  • Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus / genetics
  • Viral Vaccines / immunology*

Substances

  • Vaccines, Synthetic
  • Viral Vaccines