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Centralized immunogens as a vaccine strategy to overcome HIV-1 diversity

F Gao The Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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B T Korber Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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Eric Weaver Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Hua-Xin Liao Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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B H Hahn Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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B F Haynes Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Pages S161-S168 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

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