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SUBMITTER: Meckiff BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6697742 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Meckiff Benjamin J BJ Ladell Kristin K McLaren James E JE Ryan Gordon B GB Leese Alison M AM James Eddie A EA Price David A DA Long Heather M HM
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20190715 5
CD4<sup>+</sup> T cells are essential for immune protection against viruses, yet their multiple roles remain ill-defined at the single-cell level in humans. Using HLA class II tetramers, we studied the functional properties and clonotypic architecture of EBV-specific CD4<sup>+</sup> T cells in patients with infectious mononucleosis, a symptomatic manifestation of primary EBV infection, and in long-term healthy carriers of EBV. We found that primary infection elicited oligoclonal expansions of T< ...[more]