CXCL10 is a pro-inflammatory cytokine and is known to be involved in a wide variety of processes, such as chemotaxis and activation of immune cells (Gao et al., 2017), making it an important player in viral infections by stimulating the activation and migration of immune cells to infected sites (Lindell et al., 2008; Wuest and Carr, 2008; Srivastava et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene CXCL10 and viral infectious disease.