BLV: lessons on vaccine development
Abstract Vaccination against retroviruses is a challenge because of their ability to stably integrate into the host genome, undergo long-term latency in a proportion of infected cells and thereby escape immune response. Since clearance of the virus is almost impossible once infection is established,...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-10-01
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Series: | Retrovirology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12977-019-0488-8 |