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Resistance/susceptibility to <i>Echinococcus multilocularis</i> infection and cytokine profile in humans. II. Influence of the HLA B8, DR3, DQ2 haplotype
1 Sept 2000
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Differences have been shown between HLA characteristics of patients with different courses of alveolar echinococcosis (AE). Notably the HLA B8, DR3, DQ2 haplotype was associated with more severe forms of this granulomatous parasitic disease. We compared IL-10, IL-5, interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) secretion by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) isolated from eight HLA-DR3+,...
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