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A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon pp 219–232Cite as

DNA Vaccines

Construction, Production and in vivo Testing

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This chapter describes the R&D activities which have been carried in the last 9 years at the CEBQ, with the specific objective of tackling some of the new scientific and technological challenges associated with the development of DNA vaccines. Following a brief introduction on the DNA vaccine topic, the research under way is described and some significant results are highlighted.

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Prazeres, D.M.F., Monteiro, G.A. (2007). DNA Vaccines. In: Pereira, M.S. (eds) A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5690-1_14

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