Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major pathogen of acute lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in infants, the elderly, and immunocompromised individuals. This review focuses on the progress of RSV vaccine development, especially...
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections and poses a substantial disease burden to infants, older adults, and immunocompromised populations. Methods: In this study, a recombinant vaccinia...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe lower respiratory tract disease in infants and children, and a pediatric vaccine is not available. Among various approaches, live vaccines are attractive as they induce broad multi-antigeni...
The human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe respiratory tract disease, and a vaccine is not available. We previously reported a novel live vaccine expressing prefusion-stabilized fusion protein (preF) in place of the native...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection poses a significant risk for infants. Since the direct vaccination of infants is problematic, maternal vaccination may provide a safer, more effective approach to their protection. In the cotton rat (CR) mo...
This is a cross-sectional serosurveillance study for RSV. Between June and September of 2021, a total of 150 sera were collected from 30 individuals in each age group (<5, 5–18, 19–49, 50–64, and ≥65 years). Seroprevalence was...
Background/objectives: This was a post hoc analysis of safety data across the bivalent respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F (RSVpreF) vaccine clinical trial development program. Methods: Data from eight clinical trials in 46,913 immunocompetent ad...
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains a major etiologic agent of acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI). Currently licensed RSV vaccines are administered by intramuscular injection and induce limited immunity at the respirato...
Background/Objectives: Individuals with immunocompromising conditions are at high risk of developing severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) illness. This phase 3, single-arm study assessed the safety and immunogenicity of the bivalent RSV prefusion...
Background/objectives: RSV is a major cause of mortality in infants, and despite recent progress to prevent RSV in the very young, an RSV vaccine for this population is still highly warranted. Clinical studies in infants in the 1960s using formalin-i...
Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common cause of acute respiratory infection (ARI). The risk of severe RSV outcomes is higher among older adults (OAs) and individuals with chronic diseases (high risk, HR). AS01E-adjuvanted RSV preFu...
Background/Objectives: To evaluate the health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of vaccination with bivalent respiratory syncytial virus stabilized prefusion F vaccine (RSVpreF) for the prevention of lower respiratory tract disease caused by re...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe respiratory tract disease worldwide, and a pediatric vaccine is not available. We generated a filamentous RSV-based virus-like particle (VLP) that presents the central conserved region of t...
Background/Objectives: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) poses a substantial global health threat, particularly impacting infants and vulnerable pediatric populations through severe respiratory morbidity. Methods: We developed a novel adenoviral vect...
Background/Objectives: The approval of Abrysvo, a maternal bivalent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prefusion F (pre-F) vaccine, marked a major milestone in pediatric prophylaxis. However, real-world serological data on transplacental antibody tran...
Efforts to develop a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have primarily focused on the RSV fusion protein. The pre-fusion conformation of this protein induces the most potent neutralizing antibodies and is the focus of recent efforts in vac...
RSV is divided into two antigenic subtypes, RSV A and RSV B, which is largely based on the variation in the G protein, while the fusion protein F is more conserved and a target for antibody-mediated neutralization. Here we evaluate the breadth of the...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes significant morbidity and mortality, especially in young children and the elderly. RSV vaccine development puzzled vaccinologists for years. Safety concerns of initial formulations, the lack of an absolute cor...
Background/Objectives: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes substantial morbidity and mortality in older adults, and in Mexico’s rapidly growing older-adult population it may place increasing pressure on hospital-based care; however, Mexico...
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) poses a significant global health concern as a major cause of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs). Over the last few years, substantial efforts have been directed towards developing vaccines and therapeutics t...
Background/Objectives: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of respiratory infections in children. A novel RSVpreF vaccine for use among pregnant women for the prevention of RSV in infants is expected to be licensed in Mexico. Hence,...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection and shingles are two viral diseases that affect older adults, and a combined vaccine to protect against both could be beneficial. RSV infection causes hospitalisations and significant morbidity in both chil...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of acute lower respiratory tract infection in infants and young children worldwide and continues to impose a substantial disease burden despite recent advances in preventive strategies. Natural inf...
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a cause of lower respiratory tract infection in infants, young children, and older adults. There is no licensed vaccine and prophylactic treatment options are limited. The RSV fusion (F) glycoprotein is a ta...
Background: Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a respiratory virus in the Pneumoviridae family. HMPV is an enveloped, negative-sense RNA virus encoding three surface proteins: SH, G, and F. The highly immunogenic fusion (F) protein is essential for vira...
Molecular interactions between respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion protein (F protein) and the cellular receptor Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) and myeloid differentiation factor-2 (MD-2) protein complex are unknown. Thus, to reveal the detailed mo...
Although respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine development initiatives have existed for half a century, no candidate has been approved for application at all ages from neonates to children. Developing an effective and safe RSV vaccine for pediatr...
The immune response to SARS-CoV-2 infection requires antibody recognition of the spike protein. In a study designed to examine the molecular features of anti-spike and anti-nucleocapsid antibodies, patient plasma proteins binding to pre-fusion stabil...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains a leading cause of severe lower respiratory tract disease in infants, older adults, and immunocompromised individuals. Over the past decade, advances in structural biology, particularly cryo-electron microsco...
Background: To date, there is no licensed vaccine available to prevent respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. The valuable pre-fusion conformation of the fusion protein (pre-F) is prone to lose high neutralizing antigenic sites. The goals of th...
Achieving safe and protective vaccination against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants and in calves has proven a challenging task. The design of recombinant antigens with a conformation close to their native form in virus particles is a majo...
The development of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines has advanced substantially in recent years, with three prefusion F (preF) protein-based and mRNA platforms achieving regulatory approval for use in older adults. Among licensed protein sub...
Background: The transmembrane fusion (F) protein of RSV plays important roles in RSV pathogenesis as it mediates the fusion between the virus and the target cell membrane. During the fusion process, the F protein transits from a metastable state (pre...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes substantial morbidity and mortality in children and older adults. An effective vaccine must elicit neutralizing antibodies targeting the RSV fusion (F) protein, which exists in two major conformations, pre-fus...
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) remains a leading cause of severe lower respiratory tract infections in infants and immunocompromised populations, causing approximately 160,000 annual deaths globally. Despite recent approvals of prefusion F (...
Mojiang virus (MojV) is the first henipavirus identified in a rodent and known only by sequence data, whereas all other henipaviruses have been isolated from bats (Hendra virus, Nipah virus, Cedar virus) or discovered by sequence data from material o...
The induction of long-lasting clinical and virological protection is needed for a successful vaccination program against the bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV). In this study, calves with BRSV-specific maternally derived antibodies were vaccin...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a serious human respiratory pathogen that commonly affects children, older adults, and immunocompromised individuals. At present, the design of licensed vaccines focuses on the incorporation of the pre-fusion prot...
Background: As of 2024, three approved respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines are licensed for use in adults in the United States: Arexvy™, Abrysvo™, and mRESVIA™. These vaccines are specifically designed to prevent lower respir...
Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly pathogenic zoonotic pathogen. Since its discovery in 1998, recurrent epidemics have occurred in South and Southeast Asia, with a case fatality rate ranging from 40% to 100%. The outbreak in West Bengal, India in early 20...
Background: Despite considerable efforts toward vaccine development in past decades, no effective vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are available. Recently, we showed that an optimized formalin concentration can preserve prefusion pr...
Recently, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines based on the prefusion F (pre-F) antigen were approved in the United States. We aimed to develop an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)-based protocol for the practical and large-scale evalua...
Background/Objectives: Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is a leading cause of respiratory infections in the elderly, with high morbidity and mortality and with no vaccines or specific therapies available. The primary protective antigen of hMPV is the fus...
Human metapneumovirus (HMPV) is a significant respiratory pathogen, particularly in vulnerable populations. Background: No vaccine for the prevention of HMPV is currently licensed, although several subunit vaccines are in development. Saponin-based a...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) poses a substantial global health burden, particularly in infants and the elderly. The fusion (F) protein is a key therapeutic target for inhibiting RSV entry. In this study, we performed a structure-based virtual sc...
Background: The current assessment method of the protective efficacy of adjuvanted vaccines remains slow and labor-intensive, hindered by prolonged immunization protocols and complex assays. Methods: To overcome this bottleneck, we demonstrate that e...
To accurately evaluate the probabilistic characteristics of the fatigue properties of materials with small sample data under different stress ratios, a data fusion method for torsional fatigue life under different stress ratios is proposed based on t...
Nipah virus (NiV), of the Paramyxoviridae family, causes highly fatal infections in humans and is associated with severe neurological and respiratory diseases. Currently, no commercial vaccine is available for human use. Here, eight structure-based m...
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants and children. mRNA vaccines based on the lipopolyplex (LPP) platform have been previously reported, but they remain unapplied in RSV vaccine devel...
Currently, there is an increasing interest to apply pre-fusion (pre-F) protein of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as antigen for the development of a subunit vaccine. A pre-F-containing powder would increase the flexibility regarding the route of a...
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