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Mannose binding lectin gene variants and susceptibility to tuberculosis in HIV-1 infected patients of South India.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Nov 2007
Alagarasu Kalichamy, Selvaraj Paramasivam, Swaminathan Soumya, Raghavan Sampathkumar, Narendran Gopalan, Narayanan Paranji R
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Mannose binding lectin (MBL) plays an important role in innate immunity. Plasma MBL levels and MBL2 gene polymorphisms were studied in HIV-1 infected patients without tuberculosis (HIV+TB-) (n=151) and with tuberculosis (HIV+TB+) (n=109), HIV negative tuberculosis patients (HIV-TB+) (n=148) and h...
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