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with either SIVmac251, SIVsmE660, or SIVmac239, which share key features with HIV-1, the predominant human virus. In the 1990s, studies in macaques revealed that vaccines made from specific strains of live attenuated SIV could provide near-complete protection against infection with those strains. However, the development of preventative SIV vaccines that…
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