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Tuberculosis in patients with various HLA phenotypes.
Tubercle - 1 Sept 1990
Khomenko A G, Litvinov V I, Chukanova V P, Pospelov L E
Abstract excerpt
Tuberculosis patients and healthy subjects from six ethnic groups of the Soviet Union were HLA-A, -B, -C, and DR typed. The frequencies of the HLA-A, -B and -C antigens differed amongst the ethnic groups. With all groups, however, patients with tuberculosis showed a significantly increased frequency of HLA-DR2 and a reduced frequency of HLA-DR3 type. Unfavourable dynamics of tuberculosis was significantly...
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