Virological footprint of CD4+ T-cell responses during chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1396-1406

  Fleming, Vicki M ^a   Harcourt, Gillian ^a   Barnes, Eleanor ^a   Klenerman, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLYCOPROTEIN E2; MUTANT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; T CELL DEPLETION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MUTATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 77952720377     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: 14652099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.017699-0     Document Type: Article

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