100-Year-Old Vaccine for a Novel Virus: Killing Two Birds with One Stone!

Chetan Dhamne; Gagan Prakash; Gaurav Narula; Shripad Banavali; Jyoti Bajpai

doi:10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_161_20

Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology, Table of Contents

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2020; 41(03): 291-294
DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_161_20

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100-Year-Old Vaccine for a Novel Virus: Killing Two Birds with One Stone!

Chetan Dhamne

Department of Medical Oncology, TMC, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Gagan Prakash

Department of Surgical Oncology, TMC, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Gaurav Narula

Department of Medical Oncology, TMC, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Shripad Banavali

Department of Medical Oncology, TMC, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Jyoti Bajpai

Department of Medical Oncology, TMC, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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