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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We thank the clinical and laboratory staff, students and other researchers who have contributed to work that led to the ideas addressed here. Supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (42402), the Poliomyelitis Research Foundation of South Africa, the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative of South Africa and the Wellcome Trust (076352/Z/05/Z to C.T.T.).
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Tiemessen, C., Kuhn, L. CC chemokines and protective immunity: insights gained from mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Nat Immunol 8, 219–222 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0307-219
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