Why do we have a vaccine for measles, but not cytomegalovirus (CMV)?

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Mark R. Schleiss ,

* E-mail: schleiss@umn.edu

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2108-9433

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Sallie R. Permar,

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
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Stanley A. Plotkin

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Vaxconsult, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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