Elicitation of Potent H5N1- and H7N9-Neutralizing Antibody Responses in Rhesus Macaques by Sequential Heterologous Vaccination with mRNA and Adenoviral Vectors Encoding Full-Length Hemagglutinins
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) represents an enormous pandemic risk amid the ongoing H5N1 panzootic. HPAI, defined by its high lethality in domestic poultry, includes the influenza A virus (IAV) H5N1 and H7N9 subtypes and has a 40–50% case fatality rate in humans. To facilitate the development of efficacious...