New HIV/AIDS vaccine enters phase II trials

Authors

Khabir Ahmed, Aga Khan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Ophthalmology

Abstract

The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and pharmaceutical company Merck have begun enrolling around 1500 people at high risk of contracting HIV in a multicountry phase II trial of an investigational HIV/AIDS vaccine. The vaccine uses an adenovirus—a common cold virus—for the delivery of three synthetic HIV genes, gag, pol, and nef, into cells.

Publication (Name of Journal)

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Recommended Citation

Ahmed, K. (2005). New HIV/AIDS vaccine enters phase II trials. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 5(3), 138.
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