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Cardiovascular infection by Chlamydia pneumoniae is not related to apolipoprotein E genotype.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Dec 2000
Gieffers J, Solbach W, Maass M
Abstract excerpt
Chlamydia pneumoniae is detectable in the blood vessels of patients suffering from arteriosclerosis. Risk for arteriosclerosis is modulated by the apolipoprotein E (apoE) allele. We assessed the significance of the apoE genotype as a risk factor for vascular C. pneumoniae infection by determining the genotype of 30 coronary heart disease patients with PCR-proven C. pneumoniae infection of coronary artery tissue....
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