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. 2014 Dec 18;10(12):e1004482.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004482. eCollection 2014 Dec.

Measles immune suppression: functional impairment or numbers game?

Rory D de Vries  1 , Rik L de Swart  1
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Measles immune suppression: functional impairment or numbers game?

Rory D de Vries et al. PLoS Pathog. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Schematic representation of the measles paradox.
Different levels of lymphopenia (A), systemic virus loads (B), and virus-specific immune responses (C) after subclinical (blue), mild (green), moderate (black), or severe (red) morbillivirus infections. Panel D shows a model for immune suppression caused by moderate morbillivirus infection as shown in panels A, B, and C (adapted from [13]).
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