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The subject who cleared the virus experienced a prolonged episode of acute hepatitis that coincided with a CD38+ IFN-\u03b3\u2212 CD8+ T cell response to HCV and a small reduction in viremia. Subsequently, a strong CD4+ T cell response emerged and the CD8+ T cells became CD38\u2212 and started producing IFN-\u03b3 in response to HCV, coinciding with a rapid 100,000-fold decrease in viremia that occurred without a corresponding surge of disease activity. Chronic infection developed in two subjects who failed to produce a significant T cell response and in two other subjects who initially mounted strong CD4+ T cell responses that ultimately waned. In all subjects, viremia was higher at the peak of acute hepatitis than it was when the disease began, and the disease improved during the viremia. These results provide the first insight into the host\u2013virus relationship in humans during the incubation phase of acute HCV infection, and they provide the only insight to date into the virological and immunological characteristics of clinically asymptomatic acute HCV infection, the commonest manifestation of this disease. In addition, the results suggest that the vigor and quality of the antiviral T cell response determines the outcome of acute HCV infection, that the ability of HCV to outpace the T cell response may contribute to its tendency to persist; that the onset of hepatitis coincides with the onset of the CD8+T cell response, that disease pathogenesis and viral clearance are mediated by different CD8+ T cell populations that control HCV by both cytolytic and noncytolytic mechanisms, and that there are different pathways to viral persistence in asymptomatic and symptomatic acute HCV infection.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1084\/jem.194.10.1395","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,26]],"date-time":"2002-07-26T16:48:33Z","timestamp":1027702113000},"page":"1395-1406","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1084\/jem.crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":975,"title":["Determinants of Viral Clearance and Persistence during Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection"],"prefix":"10.1084","volume":"194","author":[{"given":"Robert","family":"Thimme","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Oldach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kyong-Mi","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037"},{"name":"3Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carola","family":"Steiger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stuart C.","family":"Ray","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"4Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francis V.","family":"Chisari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"291","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2001,11,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023072509504516900_BIB1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1899","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJM199212313272702","volume":"327","year":"1992","journal-title":"N. 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