Protective effect of human leukocyte ant
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Christoph Neumann-Haefelin; JΓΆrg Timm; Julia Schmidt; Nadine Kersting; Karen Fit
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Article
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2009
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Human leukocyte antigen B27 (HLA-B27) is associated with protection in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. This protective role is linked to single immunodominant HLA-B27-restricted CD8+ T-cell epitopes in both infections. In order to define the relative contrib