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CCR5 deficiency and severe polio infection in the 1984 outbreak in Finland.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Dec 2013
Rosenberg A S, Roivainen M, Hovi T, Liu Q, Murphy P M
Abstract excerpt
CCR5, a leukocyte chemoattractant receptor for chemokines CCL3, CCL4, and CCL5, promotes innate and adaptive immune responses by mediating leukocyte trafficking within lymph nodes and to peripheral tissues and is also known as a co-receptor for HIV cell entry. Homozygous inheritance of a complete loss-of-function mutation in CCR5 (CCR5Δ32/CCR5Δ32) is associated with symptomatic neuroinflammatory disease in humans...
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