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Characteristics and critical function of CD8+ T cells in the Toxoplasma-infected brain.
Seminars in immunopathology - 1 May 2015
Landrith Tyler A, Harris Tajie H, Wilson Emma H
Abstract excerpt
The rise of the AIDS epidemic made the requirement for T cells in our continuous protection from pathogens critically apparent. The striking frequency with which AIDS patients exhibited profound neurological pathologies brought attention to many chronic infections that are latent within the immune-privileged CNS. One of the most common lethal opportunistic infections of these patients was with the protozoan...
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