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Signatures of protective memory immune responses during hepatitis C virus reinfection.
Gastroenterology - 1 Oct 2014
Abdel-Hakeem Mohamed S, Bédard Nathalie, Murphy Donald, Bruneau Julie, Shoukry Naglaa H
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Development of a vaccine against hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been hindered by our limited understanding of immune correlates of protection during real-life exposure to the virus. We studied the immune response during HCV reinfection. METHODS: We analyzed blood samples from participants in the Montreal Acute Hepatitis C Injection Drug User Cohort Study who were reinfected with HCV from 2009 to...
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