This patient's own cells had the usual amount of the CCR5receptor, and the strain of HIV in his blood was the type that used the receptor.
回到这个研究中,这个患者存在着正常的CCR5基因,同时他所感染的病毒是利用这个基因复制的HIV类。
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Before undergoing the transplant, the patient was also found to be infected with low levels of a type of HIV known as X4, which does not use the CCR5receptor to infect cells.