An adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine confers protection from SARS-COV-2 challenge in rhesus macaques

A vaccine protecting from SARS-CoV-2 infection is needed. Here the authors generate a replication-incompetent adenovirus based vaccine expressing SARS-CoV-2 spike, show protection from infection in non-human primates, and analyze the immune response after intramuscular and intranasal vaccination.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liqiang Feng, Qian Wang, Chao Shan, Chenchen Yang, Ying Feng, Jia Wu, Xiaolin Liu, Yiwu Zhou, Rendi Jiang, Peiyu Hu, Xinglong Liu, Fan Zhang, Pingchao Li, Xuefeng Niu, Yichu Liu, Xuehua Zheng, Jia Luo, Jing Sun, Yingying Gu, Bo Liu, Yongcun Xu, Chufang Li, Weiqi Pan, Jincun Zhao, Changwen Ke, Xinwen Chen, Tao Xu, Nanshan Zhong, Suhua Guan, Zhiming Yuan, Ling Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18077-5