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A glimpse into immune responses evolving against Ebola virus

Antibodies elicited by the widely deployed rVSV-EBOV Ebola virus vaccine mirror those of disease survivors, animal models and other vaccine platforms. Notably, neutralizing antibodies are consistently elicited from a recurring pair of germline genes.

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