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HIV vaccine trial under fire

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Expert scrutiny casts doubt on 'historic' results.

The sponsors of the largest ever HIV vaccine trial yesterday hailed a "historic" moment as they formally announced the trial's results at an international AIDS vaccine meeting in Paris. The results received rapturous applause from an audience of more than 1,000 HIV researchers.

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  1. Rerks-Ngarm, S. et al. N. Engl. J. Med. advance online publication doi:10.1056/NEJMoa0908492 (2009).

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Butler, D. HIV vaccine trial under fire. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.1035

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