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  2. Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody

Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody

  • Science. 2016 Mar 18;351(6279):1339-42. doi: 10.1126/science.aad5224.
Davide Corti 1 John Misasi 2 Sabue Mulangu 2 Daphne A Stanley 2 Masaru Kanekiyo 2 Suzanne Wollen 3 Aurélie Ploquin 2 Nicole A Doria-Rose 2 Ryan P Staupe 2 Michael Bailey 2 Wei Shi 2 Misook Choe 2 Hadar Marcus 2 Emily A Thompson 2 Alberto Cagigi 2 Chiara Silacci 4 Blanca Fernandez-Rodriguez 4 Laurent Perez 4 Federica Sallusto 4 Fabrizia Vanzetta 5 Gloria Agatic 5 Elisabetta Cameroni 5 Neville Kisalu 6 Ingelise Gordon 2 Julie E Ledgerwood 2 John R Mascola 2 Barney S Graham 2 Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfun 6 John C Trefry 3 Antonio Lanzavecchia 7 Nancy J Sullivan 8
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland. Humabs BioMed SA, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
  • 2 Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
  • 3 U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, MD 21702, USA.
  • 4 Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
  • 5 Humabs BioMed SA, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland.
  • 6 National Institute for Biomedical Research, National Laboratory of Public Health, Kinshasa B.P. 1197, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • 7 Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Università della Svizzera Italiana, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland. Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
  • 8 Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. njsull@mail.nih.gov.
Abstract

Ebola virus disease in humans is highly lethal, with case fatality rates ranging from 25 to 90%. There is no licensed treatment or vaccine against the virus, underscoring the need for efficacious countermeasures. We ascertained that a human survivor of the 1995 Kikwit Ebola virus disease outbreak maintained circulating Antibodies against the Ebola virus surface glycoprotein for more than a decade after Infection. From this survivor we isolated monoclonal Antibodies (mAbs) that neutralize recent and previous outbreak variants of Ebola virus and mediate antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity in vitro. Strikingly, monotherapy with mAb114 protected macaques when given as late as 5 days after challenge. Treatment with a single human mAb suggests that a simplified therapeutic strategy for human Ebola Infection may be possible.

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