Human cytomegalovirus-specific immunity
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Maher K Gandhi; Mark R Wills; J.G Patrick Sissons; Andrew J Carmichael
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The herpesvirus Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is an important opportunistic infection in recipients of allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplants, in whom HCMV-specific CD8+ and CD4+ T-cell responses are impaired. The nature of the HCMV-specific T-cell response in healthy virus carriers has been c