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An interleukin-1 genotype is associated with fatal outcome of meningococcal disease.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2000
Read R C, Camp N J, di Giovine F S, Borrow R, Kaczmarski E B, Chaudhary A G, Fox A J, Duff G W
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether known variants of the interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) gene families are associated with severe manifestations of meningococcal disease, 276 white patients 4-70 years of age (median, 17 years) were genotyped. All patients had microbiologically proven Neiss...
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