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specific binding receptors on the host's surface.

This is the characteristic that allows a virus to enter a specific type of cell, its host. This process is called attachment. The HIV, for example, affects mostly CD4+ T-cells because these cells possess a chemokine receptor to which the HIV has a binding protein, the gp120.

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