TCF1+ hepatitis C virus-specific CD8+ T cells are maintained after cessation of chronic antigen stimulation

Virus-specific CD8+T cells lose effector function over the course of chronic infection, a process called ‘exhaustion’, but the fate of these cells after treatment-induced antigen elimination is unknown. Here the authors show that exhausted cells persist in patients even after direct-acting antiviral...

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Main Authors: Dominik Wieland, Janine Kemming, Anita Schuch, Florian Emmerich, Percy Knolle, Christoph Neumann-Haefelin, Werner Held, Dietmar Zehn, Maike Hofmann, Robert Thimme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15050