Genetic control and dynamics of the cellular immune response to the human T-cell leukaemia virus, HTLV-I

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1384, 1999, Pages 691-700

  Bangham, Charles R M ^a   Hall, Sarah E ^a   Jeffery, Katie J M ^a   Vine, Alison M ^a   Witkover, Aviva ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^b,d   Wodarz, Dominik ^b   Usuku, Koichiro ^c   Osame, Mitsuhiro ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL); HLA; Human retrovirus; Immunogenetics

Indexed keywords

HTLV; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 1; LEUKAEMIA VIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033614334     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0422     Document Type: Article

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