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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

Past Life and Future Effects-How Heterologous Infections Alter Immunity to Influenza Viruses.

Aisha Souquette, Paul G Thomas

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The ageing immune system and its battle with viruses.The Journal of general virology · 2026
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  3. Update on the Efficacy of Vaccination on Host Immunity to Influenza Virus Infection.International archives of allergy and immunology · 2026
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  14. A Cell for the Ages: Human γδ T Cells across the Lifespan.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Aisha SouquetteDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States.
Paul G ThomasDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States.

Funding

Mechanisms to diversify repertoire and modify T cell activity after infectionR01AI107625 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI THOMAS, PAUL G. · 2013 to 2017
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NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI107625
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Influenza virus frequently mutates due to its error-prone polymerase. This feature contributes to influenza virus's ability to evade pre-existing immunity, leading to annual epidemics and periodic pandemics. T cell memory plays a key protective role in the face of an antigenically distinct influenza virus strain because T cell targets are often derived from conserved internal proteins, whereas humoral immunity targets are often sites of increased mutation rates that are tolerated by the virus. Most studies of influenza T cell memory are conducted in naive, specific pathogen free mice and do not account for repetitive influenza infection throughout a lifetime, sequential acute heterologous infections between influenza infections, or heterologous chronic co-infections. By contrast to these mouse models, humans often experience numerous influenza infections, encounter heterologous acute infections between influenza infections, and are infected with at least one chronic virus. In this review, we discuss recent advances in understanding the effects of heterologous infections on the establishment and maintenance of CD8+ T cell immunological memory. Understanding the various factors that affect immune memory can provide insights into the development of more effective vaccines and increase reproducibility of translational studies between animal models and clinical results.

Indexed as

ImmunityAnimalsCoinfectionCross ReactionsHost-Pathogen InteractionsHumansImmunity, CellularImmunity, HumoralImmunologic MemoryInfluenza, HumanOrthomyxoviridaeT-LymphocytesattritionbystanderCD8+ T cellschronic co-infectioncross-reactivityheterologousinfluenzamemory

Identifiers

PMID29872429
PMCPMC5972221

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