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Cross-reactivity of hepatitis C virus specific vaccine-induced T cells at immunodominant epitopes.
European journal of immunology - 1 Jan 2015
Kelly Christabel, Swadling Leo, Brown Anthony, Capone Stefania, Folgori Antonella, Salio Mariolina, Klenerman Paul, Barnes Eleanor
Abstract excerpt
Viral diversity is a challenge to the development of a hepatitis C virus (HCV) vaccine. Following vaccination of humans with adenoviral vectors, we determined the capacity of T cells to target common viral variants at immundominant epitopes ex vivo. We identified two major variants for epitopes NS3(1073) and NS3(1446), and multiple variants for epitope NS3(1406) that occurred in >5% of genotype 1 and 3 sequences...
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