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Increased activation and oligoclonality of peripheral CD8(+) T cells in the chronic human helminth infection alveolar echinococcosis.
Infection and immunity - 1 Mar 2002
Manfras Burkhard J, Reuter Stefan, Wendland Thomas, Kern Peter
Abstract excerpt
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) in humans is a chronic disease characterized by slowly expanding liver lesions. Cellular immunity restricts the spreading of the extracellular pathogen, but functional contributions of CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells are not defined. Here we studied ex vivo the phenotype and function of circulating T-cell subsets in AE patients by means of flow cytometry, T-cell receptor spectratyping, and...
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