Passive immunotherapy of viral infections: 'super-antibodies' enter the fray

Nature Reviews Immunology 18, 297 (2018). doi:10.1038/nri.2017.148 Authors: Laura M. Walker & Dennis R. Burton Antibodies have been used for more than 100 years in the therapy of infectious diseases, but a new generation of highly potent and/or broadly cross-reactive human monoclonal antibodies (sometimes referred to as 'super-antibodies') offers new opportunities for intervention. The isolation of these antibodies, most of
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