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'Lethal' combination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype and human CD209 -336G allele in Russian male population.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jun 2012
Ogarkov Oleg, Mokrousov Igor, Sinkov Viacheslav, Zhdanova Svetlana, Antipina Svetlana, Savilov Eugeniy
Abstract excerpt
An interaction of different human alleles and endemic bacterial strains may be clinically manifested as different outcome of the disease in different hosts infected with the same genotype. The primary objective of this study was to investigate this issue in the model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and human DC-SIGN encoding CD209 promoter SNP (rs4804803) in Russian Siberian population. We sought to find a possible...
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