Cellular immune responses persist and humoral responses decrease two decades after recovery from a single-source outbreak of hepatitis C

Nature Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 578-582

  Takaki, Akinobu ^a,e   Wiese, Manfred ^b   Maertens, Geert ^c   Depla, Erik ^c   Seifert, Ulrike ^a   Liebetrau, Anke ^b   Miller, Jeffery L ^d   Manns, Michael P ^a   Rehermann, Barbara ^a,d  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Klinikum St Georg   (Germany)

^c Hepatitits Program   (Belgium)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 5;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HELPER CELL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROPREVALENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPITOPE MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; INTERFERON TYPE II; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TIME FACTORS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 0034030136     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75063     Document Type: Article

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