Environmental triggers and susceptibility factors in idiopathic granulomatous diseases.

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Our understanding of the pathophysiology of granulomatous diseases has increased substantially during the past few years. However, despite many environmental agents (particularly of infectious origin) capable of inducing granulomatous inflammation, we do not know why only a small percentage of exposed individuals develop the disease, suggesting that a particular trigger results in overtly recognizable phenotypes...

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