Vaccines against intracellular infections requiring cellular immunity

R A Seder1, A V Hill

  • 1Clinical Immunology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. rseder@niaid.nih.gov

Nature
|August 30, 2000
PubMed

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