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Polymorphisms in CCL5 promoter are associated with pulmonary tuberculosis in northern Spain.
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 Apr 2009
Sánchez-Castañón M, Baquero I C, Sánchez-Velasco P, Fariñas M-C, Ausín F, Leyva-Cobián F, Ocejo-Vinyals J G
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OBJECTIVE: To study whether two functional single nucleotide polymorphisms of the CC chemokine ligand 5 (CCL5) gene could affect susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in a human immunodeficiency virus negative genetically homogeneous population, containing newly diagnosed patients with active disease. DESIGN: Seventy-six patients with active pulmonary TB (PTB) and 157 healthy control subjects from...
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