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Protection against chronic hepatitis C virus infection after rechallenge with homologous, but not heterologous, genotypes in a chimpanzee model.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Nov 2005
Prince Alfred M, Brotman Betsy, Lee Dong-Hun, Pfahler Wolfram, Tricoche Nancy, Andrus Linda, Shata Mohamed T
Abstract excerpt
An open question for hepatitis C virus (HCV) vaccine development is whether the various genotypes of this virus protect against the development of chronic infection after heterologous infection with different genotypes. We approached this question by challenging chimpanzees that had recovered from HCV genotype 1a or 1b infection with 6 heterologous genotypes as well as with a homologous genotype (for chimpanzees...
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