Chemical Modification of Chitosan for Efficient Vaccine Delivery

Lei Xing1,2,3,4, Ya-Tong Fan5, Tian-Jiao Zhou6

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Department of Pharmaceutics, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 210009, China. xinglei6xl@163.com.

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