Heterosubtypic T cell-inducing vaccines for influenza in humans

禽流感病毒如果发生变异，容易在人与人之间传播，将对世界造成巨大威胁。如果发生这种情况，将针对突变株生产疫苗，但在获得这些疫苗之前将有一段时间滞后。我们一直在研究一种新型疫苗，这种疫苗可以诱导保护性T细胞对所有流感毒株中常见的部分病毒产生免疫，并对任何新病毒都有效。我们从动物模型中获得的信息将用于制造这种类型的人类疫苗。

Bird flu virus poses a large risk to the world if it mutates to become easily spread between people. If this occurs vaccines will be made to the mutated strain but there will be a time lag before these are available. We have been working on a novel vaccine that induces protective T cell immunity to parts of the virus that are common to all influenza strains and will be effective against any new virus. Our information from animal models will be used to create a human vaccine of this type .