infectious diseases
Ebola Vaccine
Preparations of Ebola Vaccine
rVSV-ZEBOV is a live-attenuated recombinant viral vaccine. It provides protection against theZaire ebolavirusspecies and does not protect against other species of Ebola virus or Marburg virus. Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo is a combination of two vaccine vectors that are genetically modified so that they cannot replicate in human cells. These vector vaccines carry the genetic code of several Ebola virus proteins to trigger an immune response: Ad26.ZEBOV is a recombinant DNA vaccine based on adenovirus type 26 (Ad26). MVA-BN-Filo is a recombinant DNA vaccine based on modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA). 