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Genetic deficiencies of innate immune signalling in human infectious disease.
The Lancet. Infectious diseases - 1 Nov 2009
van de Vosse Esther, van Dissel Jaap T, Ottenhoff Tom H M
Abstract excerpt
The type-1 cytokine (interleukin 12, interleukin 23, interferon gamma, interleukin 17) signalling pathway is triggered during infection by activation of phagocyte-expressed pattern-recognition receptors that recognise specific pathogen-associated molecular patterns. Triggering of this pathway results, among other things, in activation of microbicidal mechanisms in phagocytic cells. Individuals with a deficiency...
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