CD4+ T cell help during early acute hepacivirus infection is critical for viral clearance and the generation of a liver-homing CD103+CD49a+ effector CD8+ T cell subset

• Jarrett Lopez-Scarim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Dustyn Mendoza,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Shashank M. Nambiar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

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• Eva Billerbeck

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: eva.billerbeck@einsteinmed.edu

  Affiliations Division of Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0477-1748

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