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Karen S Slobod1, Chris Coleclough, Scott A Brown
1Department of Infectious Diseases, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 N, Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105 USA. julia.hurwitz@stjude.org.
AIDS Research and Therapy
|April 30, 2005
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Today, scientists are often encouraged to custom-design vaccines based on a particular country or clade. Here, we review the scientific literature and then suggest that the overwhelming endeavor to produce a unique vaccine for every world region or virus subtype may not be necessary.
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