Duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) has been a useful model for hepadnavirus infection. There have been few studies on immunity to DHBV and none describing the cell-mediated immune response by acute and chronically infected ducks. A duck hepatitis B antigen-specific blastogenesis assay was used to measure
ChemInform Abstract: Characterization of the Cellular Immune Response in Hepatitis C Virus Infection
β Scribed by Xinjian Zhang; Jun Dou; Markus W. Germann
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Weight
- 15 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0931-7597
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