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Background
In 2007–2009, a major yellow fever virus (YFV) outbreak in Northern Argentina decimated the local howler monkey (Alouatta) population.
Aims
To evaluate whether the surviving howler monkeys possess advantageous genetic variants inherited from monkeys alive prior to the YFV outbreak, we explored the relationship between Toll‐like receptor (TLR) 7 and TLR8 gene variation and YFV susceptibility...