Establishment of a Neonatal Natural Transmission Model for Cytomegalovirus Vaccine Development
Teeba Jihad, Xiaoyuan S Chi, Zhiqing He, Kwok Lee, Elie Needle, Jakob Loschko, Jessica Goymer, Helen Wang, Helene Boigard, Camille Robertson, Jennifer Obregon, Kasey Wilson, Isis Kanevsky, Paul Liberator, Yury V Matsuka, Mark R Walter, Kathrin U Jansen, Xinzhen Yang, Philip R Dormitzer, Kena A Swans · 2026
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Teeba Jihad and co-authors built a natural spread model in newborn monkeys to test vaccines against a virus that harms babies before birth, in work published in 2026. The catalog byline is cut short, while the head gives the full team. Earlier vaccine attempts matched natural immunity on paper yet failed against a lab challenge dose.
Newborns housed with infected mothers received five vaccine rounds over two years. Infection rates matched placebo at forty weeks, but by one year the vaccinated groups showed partial protection. Once moved to group housing, all young monkeys caught and shed the virus within weeks. The authors say the model mirrors human vaccine trial patterns and can screen future candidates.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Teeba Jihad, Xiaoyuan S Chi, Zhiqing He, Kwok Lee, Elie Needle, Jakob Loschko, Jessica Goymer, Helen Wang, Helene Boigard, Camille Robertson, Jennifer Obregon, Kasey Wilson, Isis Kanevsky, Paul Liberator, Yury V Matsuka, Mark R Walter, Kathrin U Jansen, Xinzhen Yang, Philip R Dormitzer, Kena A Swans |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |