Altered Functionality of Anti-Bacterial Antibodies in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Anne Lamontagne; Ronald E. Long; Mary Ann Comunale; Julie Hafner; Lucy Rodemich-Betesh; Mengjun Wang; Jorge Marrero; Adrian M. Di Bisceglie; Timothy Block; Anand Mehta

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064992

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Altered Functionality of Anti-Bacterial Antibodies in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Anne Lamontagne ,

* E-mail: anne.lamontagne@drexelmed.edu (AL); asm54@me.com (AM)

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Ronald E. Long,

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Mary Ann Comunale,

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Julie Hafner,

Affiliation Immunotope Inc., Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Lucy Rodemich-Betesh,

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Mengjun Wang,

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Jorge Marrero,

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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Adrian M. Di Bisceglie,

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine and Saint Louis University Liver Center, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Timothy Block,

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Anand Mehta

* E-mail: anne.lamontagne@drexelmed.edu (AL); asm54@me.com (AM)

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Drexel Institute for Biotechnology and Virology, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Altered Functionality of Anti-Bacterial Antibodies in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

Anne Lamontagne,
Ronald E. Long,
Mary Ann Comunale,
Julie Hafner,
Lucy Rodemich-Betesh,
Mengjun Wang,
Jorge Marrero,
Adrian M. Di Bisceglie,
Timothy Block,
Anand Mehta

Published: June 4, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064992

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