Bacterial deception of MAIT cells in a cloud of superantigen and cytokines

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Johan K. Sandberg ,

* E-mail: johan.sandberg@ki.se

Affiliation Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6275-0750

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Anna Norrby-Teglund,

Affiliation Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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Edwin Leeansyah

Affiliations Center for Infectious Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore
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