Nature Immunology
2, 991 - 993 (2001)
doi:10.1038/ni1101-991
Memory T cells: total recall or just a sense of déjà vu?Urs Karrer1, Annette Oxenius1, Rodney Phillips1, 2
& Paul Klenerman1, 21
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK. 2
The Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3SY, UK.
Rodney.Phillips@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Is a lifetime of sequential viral infections detrimental or advantageous to the host? New evidence suggests that pre-existing memory T cells specific for one type of virus can alter, for the better, the disease outcome after infection with an unrelated virus.
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