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Universal flu vaccines: primum non nocere
1Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. james.crowe@vanderbilt.edu
Science Translational Medicine
|August 30, 2013
Abstract:
Envisioning universal influenza vaccines that induce antibodies to conserved viral epitopes is exciting, but first we need to better understand the balance of effects caused by neutralizing and nonneutralizing antibodies (Khurana et al., this issue).
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