Article
Specific HLA in pulmonary MAC infection in a Japanese population.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine - 1 Jul 2000
Takahashi M, Ishizaka A, Nakamura H, Kobayashi K, Nakamura M, Namiki M, Sekita T, Okajima S
Abstract excerpt
Patients with pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection occasionally have neither past histories of pulmonary diseases nor underlying immunodeficiency conditions. Therefore, we hypothesized that MAC may be linked with a disease-susceptibility gene and determined human leukocyte-associated antigens (HLA) in patients with pulmonary MAC infection. HLA phenotypes were tested in 59 patients with pulmonary...
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