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Tuberculosis in the course of sarcoidosis treatment: is genotyping necessary for personalized therapy?
Expert review of clinical immunology - 1 Apr 2013
Dubaniewicz Anna, Zimmermann Agnieszka, Dudziak Maria, Typiak Marlena, Skotarczak Monika
Abstract excerpt
Pathological similarities between sarcoidosis (SA) and tuberculosis (TB) suggest that mycobacterial antigen(s), in genetically different predisposed hosts, may be a cause of SA. The authors' work and other published comparative analyses of HLA and non-HLA alleles in patients with SA or TB from different ethnic groups in the world revealed that some antigens were connected with high risk of SA or TB development,...
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