Abstracts summarizing recent research overseen by the WHO Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research - 2006

Overview

2006 report on the variola collection
The WHO Collaborating Center for Smallpox and other Poxviruses at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA

Update 2006 – antibodies and protein based diagnostics
Diagnostic Development at the CDC

Update on variola virus stocks
Conservation of genetic material of different variola virus strains from the Russian collection at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Orthopoxvirus Diagnosis and Repository for Variola Virus Strains and DNA

Sequencing and computer-assisted analysis of variola virus DNA
at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Orthopoxvirus Diagnosis and Repository for Variola Virus Strains and DNA

The study of reactogenicity, safety, and immunogenicity of recombinant smallpox-and hepatitis B vaccine for oral administration in humans

Development of neutralizing human scFv-antibodies against pathogenic orthopoxviruses

2006 report on support for development of second and third generation smallpox vaccines
The WHO Collaborating Center for Smallpox and other Poxviruses at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA

2006 report on in vitro evaluation of the antiviral compound ST-246
The WHO Collaborating Center for Smallpox and other Poxviruses at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA

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