Moreover, some viruses, including HIV-1 (Geijtenbeek et al., 2000), Ebola virus (Alvarez et al., 2002), influenza virus (Wang et al., 2008), human cytomegalovirus (Halary et al., 2002), dengue virus (Tassaneetrithep et al., 2003), and SARS-CoV (Jeffers et al., 2004), have evolved to exploit CLRs as additional receptors for viral trans/cis infection. The gene discussed is LARS1; the disease is infection.