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Host genes and HIV: the role of the chemokine receptor gene CCR5 and its allele.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
McNicholl J M, Smith D K, Qari S H, Hodge T
Abstract excerpt
Since the late 1970s, 8.4 million people worldwide, including 1.7 million children, have died of AIDS, and an estimated 22 million people are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)(1). During 1995 and 1996, major clinical and laboratory discoveries regarding HIV pathogenesis provided new hope for the prevention and treatment of HIV infection. One major discovery was that members of the chemokine...
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