Replication-defective adenovirus (rAd) vectors are powerful inducers of cellular immune responses and have therefore come to serve as useful vectors for gene-based vaccines, particularly for lentiviruses and filoviruses, as well as other nonviral pathogens (14,34,39,40,43,44,46). Adenovirus-based vaccines have several advantages as human vaccines-they can be produced to high titers under good manufacturing practice (GMP) conditions and have proven to be safe and immunogenic in humans (2,6,12,16,18). While most of the initial vaccine work was conducted using rAd serotype 5 (rAd5) due to its significant potency in eliciting broad antibody and CD8 ϩ T-cell responses, preexisting immunity to rAd5 in humans may limit efficacy (5-7, 29). This property might restrict the use of rAd5 vectors in clinical applications for many vaccines that are currently in development, including those for Ebolavirus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV).To circumvent the issue of preexisting immunity to rAd5, several alternative vectors are currently under investigation. These include adenoviral vectors derived from rare human serotypes and vectors derived from other animals, such as chimpanzees (1,39,49). Research on the use of animal-derived adenoviral vectors is relatively nascent, while human adenoviruses possess the advantages of having well-characterized biology and tropism on human cells, as well as documented manufacturability (48). Immunogenicity of these vectors and their potential as vaccines has been demonstrated with animal models, primarily as prime-boost combinations with heterologous vectors (1, 41).Adenovirus seroprevalence frequencies are cohort dependent (28), but among the large group of 51 human adenoviruses tested, Ad35 and Ad11 were the most rarely neutralized by sera from six geographic locations (49). rAd35 vector vaccines have been shown to be immunogenic in mice, nonhuman primates (NHPs), and humans and are able to circumvent Ad5 immunity (4,30,31,36,47). rAd35 vectors grow to high titers in cell lines suitable for production of clinical-grade vaccines (13) and have been formulated for injection as well as stable inhalable powder (15). These vectors show efficient transduction of human dendritic cells (8,26) and thus have the capability to mediate high-level antigen delivery and presentation.Prime-boost regimens based on vectors derived from closely related adenovirus serotypes, such as Ad11 and Ad35, both from subgroup B, are less immunogenic than combinations of more genetically and immunologically distinct adenoviral vec-* Corresponding author. Mailing address: