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Research Paper

A deeper mining on the protein composition of VA-MENGOC-BC®: An OMV-based vaccine against N. meningitidis serogroup B and C

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Pages 2548-2560 | Received 07 Feb 2017, Accepted 13 Jul 2017, Published online: 30 Oct 2017

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