Safety of and Immune System Response to an HIV Vaccine (EP HIV-1090) in HIV Uninfected Adults

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test the safety of an HIV DNA vaccine (EP HIV-1090) and to test whether or not the vaccine can stimulate immune system responses in HIV uninfected people. This vaccine uses only parts of the virus's DNA and cannot cause HIV infection.

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2005-09

Publications

• Background Sette A, Vitiello A, Reherman B, Fowler P, Nayersina R, Kast WM, Melief CJ, Oseroff C, Yuan L, Ruppert J, Sidney J, del Guercio MF, Southwood S, Kubo RT, Chesnut RW, Grey HM, Chisari FV. The relationship between class I binding affinity and immunogenicity of potential cytotoxic T cell epitopes. J Immunol. 1994 Dec 15;153(12):5586-92.
• Background Altfeld MA, Livingston B, Reshamwala N, Nguyen PT, Addo MM, Shea A, Newman M, Fikes J, Sidney J, Wentworth P, Chesnut R, Eldridge RL, Rosenberg ES, Robbins GK, Brander C, Sax PE, Boswell S, Flynn T, Buchbinder S, Goulder PJ, Walker BD, Sette A, Kalams SA. Identification of novel HLA-A2-restricted human immunodeficiency virus type 1-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes predicted by the HLA-A2 supertype peptide-binding motif. J Virol. 2001 Feb;75(3):1301-11. doi: 10.1128/JVI.75.3.1301-1311.2001.
• Background Woodberry T, Gardner J, Mateo L, Eisen D, Medveczky J, Ramshaw IA, Thomson SA, Ffrench RA, Elliott SL, Firat H, Lemonnier FA, Suhrbier A. Immunogenicity of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) polytope vaccine containing multiple HLA A2 HIV CD8(+) cytotoxic T-cell epitopes. J Virol. 1999 Jul;73(7):5320-5. doi: 10.1128/JVI.73.7.5320-5325.1999.
• Background Livingston BD, Newman M, Crimi C, McKinney D, Chesnut R, Sette A. Optimization of epitope processing enhances immunogenicity of multiepitope DNA vaccines. Vaccine. 2001 Sep 14;19(32):4652-60. doi: 10.1016/s0264-410x(01)00233-x.
• Background Hanke T, Samuel RV, Blanchard TJ, Neumann VC, Allen TM, Boyson JE, Sharpe SA, Cook N, Smith GL, Watkins DI, Cranage MP, McMichael AJ. Effective induction of simian immunodeficiency virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes in macaques by using a multiepitope gene and DNA prime-modified vaccinia virus Ankara boost vaccination regimen. J Virol. 1999 Sep;73(9):7524-32. doi: 10.1128/JVI.73.9.7524-7532.1999.

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