[What's new in vaccines against herpes simplex infections?].
Herpes simplex viruses (HSV) can cause a variety of infections, including genital herpes. Despite effective antiviral therapy HSV infections remain a public health problem. Vaccines offer the possibility for controlling the spread and limiting HSV disease, two strategies for herpes vaccination: prophylactic immunization or therapeutic immunization. The article discusses the results of different studies, in particular, concerning recombinant vaccines, DISC vaccines and DNA vaccines.
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Département pluridisciplinaire de Médecine, CHU Grenoble, 38043 Grenoble, France.
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D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000276:immunology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D019444:Vaccines, DNA / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014765:Viral Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use
D019444:Vaccines, DNA; D014765:Viral Vaccines