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Tetramer enrichment reveals the presence of phenotypically diverse hepatitis C virus-specific CD8+ T cells in chronic infection.
Journal of virology - 1 Jan 2015
Nitschke Katja, Flecken Tobias, Schmidt Julia, Gostick Emma, Marget Matthias, Neumann-Haefelin Christoph, Blum Hubert E, Price David A, Thimme Robert
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Virus-specific CD8(+) T cells are rarely detectable ex vivo by conventional methods during chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. In this study, however, we were able to detect and characterize HCV-specific CD8(+) T cells in all chronically HCV genotype 1a-infected, HLA-A*02:01-positive patients analyzed by performing major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I tetramer enrichment. Two-thirds...
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