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Host susceptibility and clinical outcomes in toll-like receptor 5-deficient patients with typhoid fever in Vietnam.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2005
Dunstan Sarah J, Hawn Thomas R, Hue Nguyen Thi, Parry Christopher P, Ho Vo An, Vinh Ha, Diep To Song, House Deborah, Wain John, Aderem Alan, Hien Tran Tinh, Farrar Jeremy J
Abstract excerpt
Toll-like receptor 5 (TLR5) mediates innate immune responses to bacterial pathogens by binding to flagellin. A polymorphism in the TLR5 gene introduces a premature stop codon (TLR5(392STOP)) that is associated with susceptibility to legionnaires disease. Here we investigated whether TLR5(392STOP) was associated with typhoid fever. The frequency of TLR5(392STOP) was not significantly different in 565 patients with...
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