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DETECTION OF MICROBES BY NATURAL KILLER T CELLS

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This work was supported by NIH grants R37 AI71922, RO1 AI45053, RO1 AI69276 (MK), and a fellowship from The Irvington Institute Fellowship Program of the Cancer Research Institute Research (Y.K.).

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Kinjo, Y., Kronenberg, M. (2009). DETECTION OF MICROBES BY NATURAL KILLER T CELLS. In: Schoenberger, S., Katsikis, P., Pulendran, B. (eds) Crossroads between Innate and Adaptive Immunity II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 633. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79311-5_3

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