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Polyfunctional T cells in human tuberculosis
20 Jul 2010
Abstract excerpt
Studies of chronic viral infections have highlighted the phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of antigen-specific T cells and suggested that polyfunctional T cells that secrete multiple cytokines and are able to proliferate on encounter with antigen are more likely than single cytokine secretors to represent correlates of protective immunity. These findings have prompted the evaluation of such T-cell responses...
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