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Multivalent vaccines: Prospects and challenges

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The advantages and disadvantages of combination vaccines are set out with a clear indication that, although there are many (described and discussed) influences on in the immunogenicity of a vaccine it would still be of considerable value to be able to deliver such materials with the minimum number of needle-stick injections. Such a situation may become facilitated in the future as vaccines based on plasmid DNA become available; a prospect which is examined in outline in the final section.

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Given at aFEMS International Symposium on Novel Methods and Standardization in Microbiology, at Košice (Slovakia), July 1–4, 1996.

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Spier, R.E. Multivalent vaccines: Prospects and challenges. Folia Microbiol 42, 105–112 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02898716

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