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|issue=3
|pages=367-71
|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nm1541
|quote=
|pubmedID=17334373
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|DOI=10.1038/nm1541
|date=2007-03-04 |accessdate=2019-10-19
}}</ref> One of the authors of the study, Teunis Geijtenbeek, said that "Langerin is able to scavenge viruses from the surrounding environment, thereby preventing infection" and "since generally all tissues on the outside of our bodies have Langerhans cells, we think that the human body is equipped with an antiviral defense mechanism, destroying incoming viruses."<ref>{{REFnews
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