1 Protective efficacy of recombinant Modified Vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) delivering 1 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus spike glycoprotein 2 3 4 Asisa Volz1, Alexandra Kupke2, Fei Song1, Sylvia Jany1, Robert Fux1, Hosam Shams-Eldin2, 5 Jörg Schmidt2, Christin Becker3, Markus Eickmann2, Stephan Becker2, and Gerd Sutter1 # 6 7 1German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Institute for Infectious Diseases and 8 Zoonoses, LMU University of Munich, Munich, Veterinaerstrasse 13, D-80539 Munich, 9 Germany; 10 2German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Institute of Virology, Philipps University 11 Marburg, Marburg, Germany; 12 3University of Giessen Lung Center, Department of Internal Medicine II, Section of Infectious 13 Diseases, Giessen, Germany; 14 15 Running title: Protective immunization with MVA-MERS-S vaccine 16 17 Abstract: 75 words 18 Text: 1202 words 19 20 #corresponding author: