Studying the Immune Synapse in HIV-1 Infection

Iratxe Del Río-Iñiguez1,2, Jérôme Bouchet1,2, Andrés Alcover3,4

  • 1Institut Pasteur, Department of Immunology, Lymphocyte Cell Biology Unit, Paris, France.

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