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Prevalence of mutant CCR5 allele in Slovenian HIV-1-infected and non-infected individuals.
Acta virologica - 1 Feb 1998
Poljak M, Tomazic J, Seme K, Maticic M, Vidmar L
Abstract excerpt
A 32 bp deletion in the CCR5 gene designated CCR5 delta 32 has been identified recently as the cellular basis for resistance to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in some individuals which remained non-infected despite a repeated exposure to this virus. The prevalence of this deletion was examined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on 51 HIV-1-infected and 385 non-infected individuals from all parts of...
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