Revisiting the Elusive Hepatitis C Vaccine

Stephen M Todryk; Margaret F Bassendine; Simon H Bridge

doi:10.3390/vaccines9020114

Revisiting the Elusive Hepatitis C Vaccine

Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Feb 2;9(2):114. doi: 10.3390/vaccines9020114.

Authors

Stephen M Todryk^{1

2}, Margaret F Bassendine², Simon H Bridge^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK.
² Translational &Clinical Research Institute, The Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK.

Abstract

The impactful discovery and subsequent characterisation of hepatitis C virus (HCV), an RNA virus of the flavivirus family, led to the awarding of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice [...].

Publication types

Editorial