??Objective To investigate the relationship between CCL2-2518A/G gene polymorphism and severity of enterovirus 71??EV71?? infection. Methods CCL2 gene polymorphism in 188 EV71-infected patients and 235 healthy controls were detected by the improved multiplex ligation detection reaction technique??iMLDR??. The level of CCL2 in two groups was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay??ELISA??. Results No significant differences were found in the distribution of genotype CCL2-2518A/G between EV71-infected patients and the healthy control group??P??0.05??. The G allele??genotypes AG or GG?? in the CCL2-2518A/G??P??0.001?? was more frequent in patients with severe EV71 infection. The level of CCL2 in infected patients was higher than that of the heathy controls ??P??0.05???? the severe cases had higher level of CCL2 than that of the slight cases and healthy controls??P??0.05??. The level of CCL2 in GG gene group was significantly higher than that in AG gene group and the level of CCL2 in AG gene group was significantly higher than that in AA gene group.The people with CCL2-2518G allele??GG+AG?? had higher level of CCL2 than those only with CCL2-2518A allele??AA????P??0.05??. Conclusion The G carrier of the CCL2-2518A/G is found to be associated with severity of EV71 infection??and could be susceptibility factors in the development of EV71 infection. 相似文献