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Session 109   Poster Abstracts
HCV Pathogenesis
Wednesday, 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Poster Hall
788Longitudinal Evaluation of the Cellular Immune Reponse to Acute HCV Infection in Humans
A Cox*1, G Lauer2, T Mosbruger1, D Netski1, D Thomas1, and S Ray1
1Johns Hopkins Univ. Sch. of Med., Baltimore, MD, USA and 2Harvard Med. Sch., Boston, MA, USA
789Natural Killer Cells Inhibit Hepatitis C Virus Replicon Expression Mediated by Interferon-Gamma
Y Li*, T Zhang, C Ho, S D Douglas, J S Orange, and W Z Ho
Children's Hosp. of Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Sch. of Med., USA
790Low Nadir CD4 Counts are Associated with Loss of CD4 T-cell Responses against HCV in HIV+/HCV+-co-infected Subjects
A Y Kim*1, J Schulze zur Wiesch1, C L Day1, K Ouchi1, M A Boczanowski1, A G Wurcel1, D Casson2, R T Gandhi1, G Robbins1, R T Chung2, B D Walker1, and G M Lauer1
1Partners AIDS Res. Ctr., Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., Charlestown, USA and 2Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., Boston, USA
791Intrahepatic Pattern of Leucocytes Infiltration and Cytokine Gene Expression in HCV/HIV Co-infected Patients
G Sitia1,2, A De Bona1, S Bagaglio1, C Paties1, L Galli1, C Uberti-Foppa*1, L G Guidotti2, G Morsica1, and A Lazzarin1
1San Raffaele Sci. Inst., Milan, Italy and 2Scripps Res. Inst., La Jolla, CA, USA
792Full Genome Sequencing of HCV during Natural Infection Reveals Extensive Viral Evolution Suggestive of CD8 Escape
J Timm*1, G M Lauer1, A Y Kim1, K Ouchi1, R T Gandhi1, J Schulze zur Wiesch1, R T Chung2, L Lewis-Ximenez3, P Klenerman4, B D Walker1, and T M Allen1
1Partners AIDS Res. Ctr., Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., Harvard Med. Sch., Boston, USA; 2Massachusetts Gen. Hosp., Harvard Med. Sch., Boston, MA, USA; 3Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and 4Nuffield Dept. of Med., Oxford, UK
793Effect of HIV Infection on the Specific CD8+ T-cell Responses against Hepatitis C Virus in Patients Co-infected with HCV and HIV
L Capa*, J M Benito, J Garcia-Samaniego, M Lopez, J Gonzalez-Lahoz, and V Soriano
Madrid, Spain
794Dendritic Cell Function during Chronic Hepatitis C Virus and HIV-1 Co-infection
Z Fan1, X Huang1, N Krisnamoorthy1, S A Young2, R Shankarappa1, C R Rinaldo, Jr*1, and MACS
1Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA, USA and 2Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA