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Intranasal application of polyethyleneimine suppresses influenza virus infection in mice
Biao He1, Yuhong Fu1, Shuai Xia1
1Key Lab of Medical Molecular Virology of MOE/MOH, School of Basic Medical Sciences and Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Emerging Microbes & Infections
|April 28, 2016
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