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Vaginal CD4+ T cells express high levels of CCR5 and are rapidly depleted in simian immunodeficiency virus infection.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2003
Veazey Ronald S, Marx Preston A, Lackner Andrew A
Abstract excerpt
Worldwide, the majority of human immunodeficiency virus-1 cases occur through heterosexual transmission, yet little is known regarding the phenotype of CD4(+) T cells in the vaginal mucosa. In the present study, lymphocytes were compared from the lymph nodes, blood, and vagina from uninfected and...
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