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Assessing the safety and immunogenicity of recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus Ebola vaccine in healthy adults: a randomized clinical trial
May S. ElSherif, Catherine Brown, Donna MacKinnon-Cameron, Li Li, Trina Racine, Judie Alimonti, Thomas L. Rudge, Carol Sabourin, Peter Silvera, Jay W. Hooper, Steven A. Kwilas, Nicole Kilgore, Christopher Badorrek, W. Jay Ramsey, D. Gray Heppner, Tracy Kemp, Thomas P. Monath, Teresa Nowak, Shelly A. McNeil, Joanne M. Langley and Scott A. Halperin; on behalf of the Canadian Immunization Research Network
CMAJ June 19, 2017 189 (24) E819-E827; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.170074
May S. ElSherif
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Catherine Brown
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Donna MacKinnon-Cameron
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Li Li
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Trina Racine
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Judie Alimonti
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Thomas L. Rudge
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Carol Sabourin
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Peter Silvera
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Jay W. Hooper
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Steven A. Kwilas
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Nicole Kilgore
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Christopher Badorrek
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
W. Jay Ramsey
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
D. Gray Heppner
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Tracy Kemp
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Thomas P. Monath
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Teresa Nowak
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Shelly A. McNeil
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Joanne M. Langley
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
Scott A. Halperin
Canadian Center for Vaccinology (ElSherif, Brown, MacKinnon-Cameron, Li, McNeil, Langley, Halperin), IWK Health Centre and Nova Scotia Health Authority, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; National Microbiology Laboratory (Racine, Alimonti), Winnipeg, Man.; Battelle Biomedical Research Center (Rudge, Sabourin), Columbus, Ohio; United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (Silvera, Hooper, Kwilas), Fort Detrick, Md.; Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense Medical Countermeasure Systems’ Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program (Kilgore, Badorrek), Fort Detrick, Md.; BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corporation (Ramsey, Heppner, Kemp, Monath), Ames, Iowa; Veristat LLC (Nowak), Southborough, Mass.
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Assessing the safety and immunogenicity of recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus Ebola vaccine in healthy adults: a randomized clinical trial
May S. ElSherif, Catherine Brown, Donna MacKinnon-Cameron, Li Li, Trina Racine, Judie Alimonti, Thomas L. Rudge, Carol Sabourin, Peter Silvera, Jay W. Hooper, Steven A. Kwilas, Nicole Kilgore, Christopher Badorrek, W. Jay Ramsey, D. Gray Heppner, Tracy Kemp, Thomas P. Monath, Teresa Nowak, Shelly A. McNeil, Joanne M. Langley, Scott A. Halperin
CMAJ Jun 2017, 189 (24) E819-E827; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.170074
Assessing the safety and immunogenicity of recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus Ebola vaccine in healthy adults: a randomized clinical trial
May S. ElSherif, Catherine Brown, Donna MacKinnon-Cameron, Li Li, Trina Racine, Judie Alimonti, Thomas L. Rudge, Carol Sabourin, Peter Silvera, Jay W. Hooper, Steven A. Kwilas, Nicole Kilgore, Christopher Badorrek, W. Jay Ramsey, D. Gray Heppner, Tracy Kemp, Thomas P. Monath, Teresa Nowak, Shelly A. McNeil, Joanne M. Langley, Scott A. Halperin
CMAJ Jun 2017, 189 (24) E819-E827; DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.170074
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