Current Progress and Challenges in the Development of a Hepatitis C Virus Vaccine

• Yazar: Thomas F. Baumert (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Steven K.H. Foung (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Frontiers Media SA 2019
• Seri Bilgileri: Frontiers Research Topics
• Konular: Medicine; Conformational epitopes; humoral immunity; Conformational structures; neutralizing antibodies; Vaccine; Hepatitis C virus; hypervariability and flexibility
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

More than 70 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis C virus, a major cause of liver cirrhosis, liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma world-wide. In the last decade, this cancer has emerged as the second leading cause of cancer death and the global burden is increasing by two milli...