Vaccines for bacterial sexually transmitted infections: a realistic goal?

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 29, 1994

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P F Sparling1, C Elkins, P B Wyrick, M S Cohen

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1: Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7005.

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