Establishment of a CD46 and desmoglein-2 expressing mouse model for human adenovirus type 55 vaccine evaluation.
Human adenovirus type 55 (HAdV-55) is an emerging respiratory pathogen associated with severe pneumonia, for which no licensed vaccines are currently available. The lack of physiologically relevant small-animal models has limited preclinical evaluation of vaccine candidates. In this study, we generated a transgenic mou...