Evidence of hepatitis C virus-specific interferon gamma-positive T cells in health care workers in an infectious disease department

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 426-429

  Perrella, Alessandro ^a   Grattacaso, Stella ^a   d'Antonio, Anna ^a   Atripaldi, Luigi ^a   Sbreglia, Costanza ^a   Gnarini, MariaRosaria ^a   Conti, Pio ^b   Vecchiet, Jacopo ^b   Perrella, Oreste ^a  

^a AO Dei Colli Hospital for Infectious Diseases D Cotugno   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIREMIA; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; ITALY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VIRAL MATRIX PROTEINS;

EID: 66149128491     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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