Immunology and the elusive AIDS vaccine.

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Published in Nature on March 11, 2010

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Herbert W Virgin1, Bruce D Walker

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1: Washington University School of Medicine and Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease Research, Campus Box 8118, 660 South Euclid Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. virgin@wustl.edu

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