Questionable efficacy of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine

Wolfram G Metzger¹, Sarai Vivas-Martínez²

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¹ Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany. Electronic address: wolfram.metzger@uni-tuebingen.de.
² Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany; Cátedra de Salud Pública, Escuela de Medicina Luis Razetti, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.

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DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30560-9

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Questionable efficacy of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine

Wolfram G Metzger et al. Lancet. 2018.

. 2018 Mar 17;391(10125):1021.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30560-9. Epub 2018 Mar 15.

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Wolfram G Metzger¹, Sarai Vivas-Martínez²

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¹ Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany. Electronic address: wolfram.metzger@uni-tuebingen.de.
² Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72074, Germany; Cátedra de Salud Pública, Escuela de Medicina Luis Razetti, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.

PMID: 29565013
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30560-9

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