Commentary


Nature Immunology 8, 219 - 222 (2007)
doi:10.1038/ni0307-219

CC chemokines and protective immunity: insights gained from mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Caroline T Tiemessen1 & Louise Kuhn1

  1. Caroline T. Tiemessen is with the AIDS Virus Research Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases and University of the Witwatersand, Sandringham 2131, South Africa. e-mail: carolinet@nicd.ac.za
  2. Louise Kuhn is with the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Centre, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA.


Maternal-infant transmission provides a useful model for the study of immune factors associated with protection against the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus and has emphasized the importance of CCL3 in protective immunity to this virus.

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