Subsequently, recombinant vaccines used vaccinia vectors carrying different combinations of structural Lassa proteins.
Reverse genetics of measles virus and resulting multivalent recombinant vaccines.
In addition, a recombinant vaccine, "should have no chance of being infectious," Dr. Schoen said.
There is no data to indicate that recombinant vaccine is potentially or actually safer than the plasma-derived product.
Vaccinia is also used in recombinant vaccines, as a vector for expression of foreign genes within a host, in order to generate an immune response.
Other poxviruses are also used as live recombinant vaccines.
The goal of the Republic of Korea is to use this strain as a challenge strain to develop a recombinant vaccine against anthrax.
He said the recombinant vaccine could cost as little as 6 cents a dose.
But scientists said it nonetheless had many features that made it an attractive candidate for redesigning into a recombinant vaccine against other types of illness.
RTS,S is the most recently developed recombinant vaccine.