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Spotlight: “Human STAT2 deficiency: a severe defect of antiviral immunity”

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  1. Laboratory of Inborn Errors of Immunity, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Giorgia Bucciol & Isabelle Meyts

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Division of Primary Immunodeficiencies, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Giorgia Bucciol & Isabelle Meyts

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Bucciol, G., Meyts, I. Spotlight: “Human STAT2 deficiency: a severe defect of antiviral immunity”. Genes Immun (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41435-023-00246-3

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