The Implications of the Rubella Virus in Un-vaccinated Pregnant Women, and Alternative Vaccine Prototypes

The rubella virus is from the Togaviridae family and the genus of rubivirus. It is an enveloped, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus consisting of about 9762 nucleotides, and containing two envelope glycoproteins, E1 and E2, and a capsid (C) protein (refer to Figure 1) (Petrova, et al., 2016). Glycoprotein E1 is a structural surface protein, which…