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Y Charoenvit1, W E Collins, T R Jones

  • 1Infectious Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD 20889.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 8, 1991
PubMed
まとめ

有効なPlasmodium vivaxマラリアサブユニットワクチンを開発するには,特定の保護エピトープをターゲットにする必要があります. Plasmodium vivax circumsporozoiteのタンパク質リピートによる免疫は,保護を与えず,精密調整された免疫応答の必要性を強調しました.

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