%0 Journal Article
%T Identification of Germinal Center B Cells in Blood from HIV-infected Drug-naive Individuals in Central Africa
%A Lydie B¨¦niguel
%A Evelyne B¨¦gaud
%A Fabrice Cognasse
%A Philippe Gabri¨¦
%A Christophe D. Mbolidi
%A Odile Sabido
%A Mary A. Marovich
%A Christiane deFontaine
%A Anne Fr¨¦sard
%A Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Lucht
%A Christian Genin
%A Olivier Garraud
%J Clinical and Developmental Immunology
%D 2004
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1080/10446670410001670454
%X To better understand the pathophysiology of B cell populations—the precursors of antibody secreting cells—during chronic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, we examined the phenotype of circulating B cells in newly diagnosed Africans. We found that all African individuals displayed low levels of naive B cells and of memory-type CD27
%U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/cdi/2004/815324/abs/