Immunological Evidence for Functional Rather than Structural Mimicry by a Shigella flexneri Y Polysaccharide-Mimetic Peptide
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1556-6811,1556-679X
DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00050-08