Therapeutic vaccination against chronic
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Allan J Zajac; Kaja Murali-Krishna; Joseph N Blattman; Rafi Ahmed
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The goal of therapeutic vaccination is to elicit an antiviral immune response within persistently infected individuals and consequently eradicate the infection. CD8+ T cells are potent mediators of viral clearance; however, during chronic infections CD4+ T cell help is required to sustain antiviral