Transmitted/founder viruses rapidly escape from CD8+ T cell responses in acute hepatitis C virus infection

Journal of Virology

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5478-5490

  Bull, Rowena A ^a   Leung, Preston ^a   Gaudieri, Silvana ^b,c   Deshpande, Pooja ^b   Cameron, Barbara ^a   Walker, Melanie ^a   Chopra, Abha ^c   Lloyd, Andrew R ^a   Luciani, Fabio ^a   Dolan, Kate ^d   Haber, Paul ^d   Rawlinson, William ^d   Treloar, Carla ^d   Dore, Greg ^d   Maher, Lisa ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HEPATITIS ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS MUTATION; YOUNG ADULT; ACUTE DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOOD; CHRONIC HEPATITIS C; DISEASE COURSE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HEPACIVIRUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PATHOGENICITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIME; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL HEPATITIS VACCINES; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928542116     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03717-14     Document Type: Article

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