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Idiotype vaccines: Forgotten but not gone

Nature Medicine volume 4, pages 668–669 (1998)Cite this article

New findings show that idiotype induced immunity has potential for both prophylactic and therapeutic vaccination (pages 705–709 and 710–712).

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