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(2012) F. Berti et al.   VACCINE

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(2009) F. Marc LaForce et al.   VACCINE

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Biology and pathogenesis of the evolutionarily successful, obligate human bacterium Neisseria meningitidis

(2009) David S. Stephens   VACCINE

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