A fifty-year odyssey: prospects for a cytomegalovirus vaccine in transplant and congenital infection

• Main Authors: Don Jeffrey Diamond (Author), Corinna La Rosa (Author), Flavia Chiuppesi (Author), Heidi Contreras (Author), Sanjeet Dadwal (Author), Felix Wussow (Author), Supriya Bautista (Author), Ryotaro Nakamura (Author), John A. Zaia (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: It has been almost fifty years since the Towne strain was used by Plotkin and collaborators as the first vaccine candidate for cytomegalovirus (CMV). While that approach showed partial efficacy, there have been a multitude of challenges to improve on the promise of a CMV vaccine. Effor...