In addition, B. dermatitidis DppIVA, which is a multifunctional protein that can act as a serine protease, assists in evasion of the host immune response during infection by cleaving CCL7, a C-C chemokine signal, which recruits Ly6Chi CCR2+ monocytes to the sites of infection (Sterkel et al., 2016). Here, CCL7 is linked to infection.