CD8+ regulatory T cells, and not CD4+ T cells, dominate suppressive phenotype and function after in vitro live Mycobacterium bovis-BCG activation of human cells

Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (M. bovis BCG), the only currently available vaccine against tuberculosis, has been reported to induce regulatory T cells in humans. The activity of regulatory T cells may not only dampen immunogenicity and protective efficacy of tuberculosis-vaccines, bu...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2014-04, Vol.9 (4), p.e94192-e94192
Hauptverfasser: Boer, Mardi C, van Meijgaarden, Krista E, Joosten, Simone A, Ottenhoff, Tom H M
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