Frequencies of activated T cell populations increase in breast milk of HCMV-seropositive mothers during local HCMV reactivation

BackgroundHuman cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can reactivate in the mammary gland during lactation and is shed into breast milk of nearly every HCMV-IgG-seropositive mother of a preterm infant. Dynamics of breast milk leukocytes during lactation, as well as blood leukocytes and the comparison between both...

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Main Authors: Katrin Lazar, Graham Pawelec, Rangmar Goelz, Klaus Hamprecht, Kilian Wistuba-Hamprecht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1258844/full