Vaccines today, vaccines tomorrow: a perspective
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Vaccines today, vaccines tomorrow: a perspective
Vaccines are considered as one of the major contributions of the 20th century and one of the most cost effective public health interventions. The International Vaccine Institute has as a mission to discover, develop and deliver new and improved vaccines against infectious diseases that affects developing nations. If Louis Pasteur is known across the globe, vaccinologists like Maurice Hilleman, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Experimental Vaccine Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2287-3651,2287-366X
DOI: 10.7774/cevr.2013.2.1.4