Methodological approach to the ex vivo expansion and detection of T. cruzi-specific T cells from chronic Chagas disease patients

• Gonzalo R. Acevedo,

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular “Héctor N. Torres” (INGEBI), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Silvia A. Longhi,

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular “Héctor N. Torres” (INGEBI), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Alcinette Bunying,

  Affiliation Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (TPIMS), San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Nazila Sabri,

  Affiliation Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (TPIMS), San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Augusto Atienza,

  Affiliation Hospital General de Agudos J.M. Ramos Mejia, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• María P. Zago,

  Affiliation Instituto de Patología Experimental (IPE-UNSA), Salta, Argentina

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• Radleigh Santos,

  Affiliation Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (TPIMS), Port St. Lucie, Florida, United States of America

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• Valeria A. Judkowski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria A. Judkowski, Clemencia Pinilla, Karina A. Gómez

  Affiliation Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (TPIMS), San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Clemencia Pinilla ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria A. Judkowski, Clemencia Pinilla, Karina A. Gómez

  Affiliation Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (TPIMS), San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Karina A. Gómez

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria A. Judkowski, Clemencia Pinilla, Karina A. Gómez

  * E-mail: gomez@dna.uba.ar

  Affiliation Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies (TPIMS), San Diego, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8115-667X

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