The impairment of CD8 responses limits the selection of escape mutations in acute hepatitis C virus infection

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 175, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 7519-7529

  Urbani, Simona ^a   Amadei, Barbara ^a   Cariani, Elisabetta ^a   Fisicaro, Paola ^a   Orlandini, Alessandra ^a   Missale, Gabriele ^a   Ferrari, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS MUTATION;

EID: 28244493685     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.11.7519     Document Type: Article

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