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Carballido, J., Namikawa, R., Carballido-Perrig, N. et al. Generation of primary antigen-specific human T- and B-cell responses in immunocompetent SCID-hu mice. Nat Med 6, 103–106 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/71434
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