Antigen-Specific CD4 T Cells Are Induced after Intravesical BCG-Instillation Therapy in Patients with Bladder Cancer and Show Similar Cytokine Profiles as in Active Tuberculosis

• Julia Elsäßer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Elsäßer, Martin W. Janssen

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany, Department of Transplant and Infection Immunology, Institute of Virology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Martin W. Janssen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Elsäßer, Martin W. Janssen

  Affiliations Department of Urology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany, Department of Transplant and Infection Immunology, Institute of Virology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Frank Becker,

  Affiliation Boxberg Centre, Urological Group and Clinic Derout/Pönicke/Becker, Neunkirchen, Germany

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• Henrik Suttmann,

  Affiliation Urologicum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Kai Schmitt,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Urban Sester,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine IV, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Michael Stöckle,

  Affiliation Department of Urology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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• Martina Sester

  * E-mail: martina.sester@uks.eu

  Affiliation Department of Transplant and Infection Immunology, Institute of Virology, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

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