Can successful vaccines teach us how to induce efficient protective immune responses?

Can successful vaccines teach us how to induce efficient protective immune responses?

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ABSTRACT Some recently introduced vaccines that have excellent efficacy records have been developed without a clear understanding of their mechanism of protection. In fact, successful


vaccines have often emerged out of empirical observations and have only rarely been the result of a rational use of the continuously increasing immunological knowledge available to


scientists. However, _a posteriori_ deciphering of the biological bases for the efficacy of successful vaccines should be an essential component of research efforts directed at the


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