The elusive search for an HIV vaccine-And what to do meanwhile

Vaccine

Volumn 26, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 6491-6493

  Lazarus, Jeffrey V ^a   Häggblom, Anna ^b   Kirkegaard, Laura ^c   Lundgren, Jens D ^d   Matic, Srdan ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c AIDS Fondet ^*  (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE;

DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

AIDS VACCINES; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS;

EID: 58149127666     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.09.013     Document Type: Editorial

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