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Finally, priming with the naked DNA vaccine was shown to augment the immune response raised by subsequent immunization with the Ad5 vector. In conclusion, this study showed that the immunoenhancing effect of Ii chain linkage is not limited to the Ad5 vector, but is also relevant with a DNA platform. 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