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Science 9 March 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5510, pp. 1879 - 1881
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5510.1879b
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AIDS VACCINES:
Long-Lasting Immunity Conferred in Monkeys

Jon Cohen

In a paper published online today by Science (www.sciencexpress.org), researchers describe a two-step AIDS vaccine strategy they developed using a laboratory-made, hybrid virus called SHIV (which is part HIV and part SIV, a simian AIDS virus) and modified vaccinia Ankara, a version of the virus used as the smallpox vaccine. In a large monkey experiment, this vaccine appears to have stimulated long-lasting immunity.

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