Shandong Science ›› 2020, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (2): 1-11.doi: 10.3976/j.issn.1002-4026.2020.02.001

• Prevention and Conrol of COVID-19 •     Next Articles

Exploring preventive measures for COVID-19 based on the existing virus vaccines

SUN Chen1a,1b, HE Qiu-xia1a,1b, GAO Yan1a,1b, ZHANG Lei2, LI Ning1a,1b, LIU Ke-chun1a,1b*   

  1. 1. a. Engineering Research Center of Zebrafish Models for Human Diseases and Drug Screening of Shandong Province;b.Shandong Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Biological Testing Technology,Biology Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences),Jinan 250103, China; 2. Biological Section, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Symonston 2609, Australia
  • Received:2020-02-25 Online:2020-04-20 Published:2020-03-30

Abstract: The outbreak of COVID-19 is seriously endangering human and public health. It has caused great concern all around the world. The most effective measure to prevent viral diseases is vaccination. But there has no specific vaccine been approved for this disease yet. Considering the serious effect of the epidemic,this article reviewed the related vaccines research on influenza viruses and coronaviruses, and their amino acid sequences were compared. The results show that there are some similarity between the spike of 2019-nCoV and hemagglutinin from influenza A virus and influenza B virus. The hemagglutinin of influenza is the major targets of current commercial sensonal influenza vaccines which imply that vaccines might be beneficial for prevention of COVID-19. Besides that, because of the high similarity between spike and nucleocapsid of SARS-CoV and 2019-nCoV, we believe that the SARS-CoV vaccine may be an alternative that can be used for the control of COVID-19 in the short term.

Key words: COVID-19, vaccine, influenza virus, SARS-CoV, corvonavirus

CLC Number: 

  • R183.3