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Published online 26 March 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040322-12

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HIV discovery allows targeting of vaccines

Researchers identify virus strains that frequently infect victims.

Researchershave profiled the HIV strains most likely to be transmitted during sex. The identification may help the hunt for vaccines to combat the most infectious strains, they hope.

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