Targeting Antigens for Universal Influenza Vaccine Development.

ABSTRACT: Traditional influenza vaccines generate strain-specific antibodies which cannot provide protection against divergent influenza virus strains. Further, due to frequent antigenic shifts and drift of influenza viruses, annual reformulation and revaccination are required in order to match circulating strains. Thus, the development of a universal influenza vaccine (UIV) is critical for long-term protection against all seasonal influenza virus strains, as well as to provide protection against a potential pandemic virus. One of the most important strategies in the development of UIVs is the selection of optimal targeting antigens to generate broadly cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies or cross-reactive T cell responses against divergent influenza virus strains. However, each type of target ant

SUBMITTER: Nguyen QT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8225176 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature