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Circulating plasmacytoid dendritic cells in acutely infected patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 4 are normal in number and phenotype.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2010
Mansour Hala, Laird Melissa E, Saleh Rasha, Casrouge Armanda, Eldin Noha Sharaf, El Kafrawy Sherif, Hamdy Maha, Decalf Jérémie, Rosenberg Brad R, Fontanet Arnaud, Abdel-Hamid Mohammed, Mohamed Mostafa K, Albert Matthew L, Rafik Mona
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 4 infection in Egypt provides a unique opportunity to study the innate immune response to symptomatic acute HCV infection. We investigated whether plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) are activated as a result of HCV infection. We demonstrate that,...
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