Lulu Huang, Tongyi Zhao, Weijun Zhao, Andong Shao, Huajun Zhao, Wenxuan Ma, Yingfei Gong, Xianhuan Zeng, Changzhen Weng, Lingling Bu, Zhenhua Di, Shiyu Sun, Qinsheng Dai, Minhui Sun, Limei Wang, Zhenguang Liu, Leilei Shi, Jiesen Hu, Shentong Fang, Cheng Zhang, Jian Zhang, Guan Wang, Karin Loré, Yong Yang, Ang Lin
Herpes zoster remains an important global health issue and mainly occurs in aged and immunocompromised individuals with an early exposure history to Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV). Although the licensed vaccine Shingrix has a remarkably high efficacy, undesired reactogenicity and increasing global demand causing vaccine shortage urged the development of improved or novel VZV vaccines. In this study, we developed a novel VZV mRNA vaccine candidate (named as ZOSAL) containing sequence-optimized mRNAs encoding full-length glycoprotein E encapsulated in an ionizable lipid nanoparticle...
January 23, 2024: Emerging Microbes & Infections