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Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 disease progression, CCR5 genotype, and specific immune responses.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology - 1 Jul 1998
Visco-Comandini U, Hultgren C, Broström C, Birk M, Kim S, Sällberg M
Abstract excerpt
The correlation among the presence of a 32-bp deletion in the CC-chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) gene, disease progression, and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific immune responses was analyzed for a cohort of 79 Caucasian HIV-1-infected patients. The CCR5 genotype (CCR5/CCR5 = wild type/wild type or delta32CCR5/CCR5 = 32-bp deletion/wild type) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells was determined by...
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