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Nature Medicine 15, 244 - 246 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nm0309-244
Choosing the right memory T cell for HIV
Genoveffa Franchini1
- Genoveffa Franchini is in the Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, US National Cancer Institute, Building 41 Room D-804, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-5065, USA. e-mail: franchig@mail.nih.gov
Abstract
An experimental simian immunodeficiency virus vaccine boosts production of memory T cells at the site where the virus first contacts the body—in the mucosa (pages 293–299). The approach has the potential to result in more effective HIV vaccines than those currently under development.
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