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Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 428498, 8 pages
Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Clones of Viruses Comprising the Towne Cytomegalovirus Vaccine
1Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University, 1101 E. Marshall Street, P.O. Box 980163, Richmond, VA 23298-0163, USA
2MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, 8 Church Street, Glasgow G11 5JR, UK
3Department of Vaccine Research, Vical Incorporated, 10390 Pacific Center Court, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
4Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
Received 14 July 2011; Accepted 24 August 2011
Academic Editor: Paul W. Doetsch
Copyright © 2012 Xiaohong Cui et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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