Vaccination to prevent persistent viral infection

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Persistent virus infections are increasingly being recognized as a significant cause of human morbidity and mortality. To establish persistence, a virus must establish infection and evade eradication by the host immune response, in particular by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). We have studied a virus that establishes persistence in part by suppressing the CTL response of the infected host. The virus persists in...

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