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Polansky H, Itzkovitz E, Javaherian A (2016) Clinical study of Gene-Eden-VIR/Novirin in genital herpes: suppressive treatment safely decreases the duration of outbreaks in both severe and mild cases. Clin Trans Med 5:40. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40169-016-0121-6
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Polansky, H., Itzkovitz, E. & Javaherian, A. Expression of Concern to: Clinical study of Gene-Eden-VIR/Novirin in genital herpes: suppressive treatment safely decreases the duration of outbreaks in both severe and mild cases. Clin Trans Med 8, 5 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40169-019-0222-0
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