Vaccination to prevent T cell subversion can protect against persistent hepacivirus infection

Autor: Alex S. Hartlage, Satyapramod Murthy, Arvind Kumar, Sheetal Trivedi, Piyush Dravid, Himanshu Sharma, Christopher M. Walker, Amit Kapoor
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09105-0
Popis: Development of a HCV vaccine is hampered by a lack of appropriate small animal models. Here, Hartlage et al. describe a rat model of hepacivirus persistence and show that persistence can be prevented by vaccination with viral non-structural proteins.
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