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Tissue-resident T cells in hepatitis B: A new target for cure?

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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 214, Issue 6, Pages 1564-1566

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ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20170842

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  1. National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health

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A hallmark of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is the functional impairment and depletion of antiviral T cells. In this issue of JEM, Pallett et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20162115) identify a reservoir of functional HBV-specific T cells among liver-resident T cells.

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