Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte escape viral variants: How important are they in viral evasion of immune clearance in viyo?

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 164, Issue , 1998, Pages 37-51

  Borrow, Persephone ^a   Shaw, George M ^b  

^a EDWARD JENNER INST FOR VACC RES   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; EPITOPE; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CLEARANCE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0031756745     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01206.x     Document Type: Article

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