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A mucosal gateway for vaccines

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The use of a natural IgG transport system to deliver a mucosal vaccine is a step toward needle-free immunization.

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Figure 1: Likely mechanism by which intranasal delivery of a vaccine protects mice against intravaginal challenge with a lethal dose of HSV-2.

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