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Yoav Keynan1, Jennifer Juno, Adrienne Meyers
1Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. keynany@yahoo.com
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|September 30, 2010
Abstract:
Because chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) may have a role in pulmonary immune response, we explored whether patients with severe pandemic (H1N1) 2009 were more likely to carry the CCR5Δ32 allele than were members of the general population. We found a large proportion of heterozygosity for the CCR5Δ32 allele among white patients with severe disease.
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