Words and Licorice
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Licking latency with licorice.
Numerous viruses cause latent infections in humans, and reactivation often results in pain and suffering. While vaccines for several of these viruses are available or currently being studied in clinical trials, and antiviral therapies have been successful in preventing or treating active infection, therapy to eradicate latent infection has lagged behind. A new study reported in this issue of th...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Iowa Review
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0021-065X,2330-0361
DOI: 10.17077/0021-065x.5552