Intrahepatic CD8+ T-cell failure during chronic hepatitis C virus infection
✍ Scribed by Hans Christian Spangenberg; Sergei Viazov; Nadine Kersting; Christoph Neumann-Haefelin; Denise McKinney; Michael Roggendorf; Fritz von Weizsäcker; Hubert E. Blum; Robert Thimme
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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