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Live virus vaccines: Something old, something new, something borrowed...

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A vaccine based on synthesized infectious viral RNA elicits protection against lethal virus challenge in an animal model (pages 1438–1440).

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Dubensky, T., Polo, J. & Liu, M. Live virus vaccines: Something old, something new, something borrowed... . Nat Med 4, 1357–1358 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/3939

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