RECOMBINANT ADENOVIRUS VACCINE

摘要

The production of antibodies or cell mediated immunity to an infectious organism in a warm blooded mammal is disclosed. The production comprises administering to the said warm blooded mammal intranasally, intramuscularly, or subcutaneously, live recombinant adenoviruses in which the virion structural protein is unchanged from that in the native adenovirus from which the recombinant adenovirus is produced, and which contain the gene coding for the antigen corresponding to said antibodies or inducing said cell mediated immunity. Vaccines containing the live recombinant adenoviruses are also described. Some of the recombinant adenoviruses are new per se.