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The search for a genetic factor associating with immune restoration disease in HIV patients co-infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Disease markers - 1 Jan 2013
Affandi Jacquita S, Kumar Manoj, Agarwal Upasna, Singh Sarman, Price Patricia
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BACKGROUND: Up to 43% of HIV-infected patients co-infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis experience exacerbations of tuberculosis (TB) after commencing antiretroviral therapy (ART). These are termed immune restoration disease (IRD). It is unclear why individual susceptibility varies. OBJECTIVE: We investigate if single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in genes encoding cytokines, chemokines and their receptors...
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