Functional exhaustion of antiviral lymphocytes in COVID-19 patients

Cellular and Molecular Immunology - Tập 17 Số 5 - Trang 533-535 - 2020
Meijuan Zheng1, Yong Gao2, Gang Wang1, Guobin Song1, Siyu Liu1, Dandan Sun1, Yuanhong Xu1, Zhigang Tian3
1Department of Clinical Laboratory, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
2Department of Clinical Laboratory, Fuyang Second People's Hospital, Fuyang Infectious Disease Clinical College, Anhui Medical University, Fuyang, Anhui, China
3Division of Molecular Medicine, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, the CAS Key Laboratory of Innate Immunity and Chronic Disease, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

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