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Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive disease of lung parenchymal scarring that is triggered by repeated microinjury to a vulnerable alveolar epithelium. It is increasingly ...

dCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA eDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Medical ...

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Potent antiviral CD4 Th1 responses generated at the onset of persistent infection are lost as infection progresses. However, it is unknown how CD4 T cell responses are mounted in the midst of an ...

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