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Plaquing of Herpes Simplex Viruses
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Transcriptional retargeting of herpes simplex virus for cell-specific replication to control
Weihua Lou1,2, Fang Ji1,2, Jianing Fu3
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200126, China.
Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
|January 7, 2018
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