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that are infected with Hepatitis B
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you find a lot of Hepatitis B surface subunits,
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proteins without the nucleic acid circulating in their blood.
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What if I collect that blood from
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patients that are already infected with Hepatitis B,
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purify the Hepatitis B protein, and inject that back into people?
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That would be a subunit vaccine
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because I'm purifying a subunit of the virus
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that could be injected and hopefully induce an immune response.
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It turns out that that works.
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Any potential problems with that approach?
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Would you like to get that vaccine?