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Interleukin-10 promoter (-1082) polymorphism in association with repeated hospital-acquired infections in elderly patients.
Aging clinical and experimental research - 1 Feb 2014
Bories Phuong-Nhi, Laurent Marie, Liuu Evelyne, Denjean Lydie, Popovici Theodora, Paillaud Elena
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BACKGROUND: Infections are frequent complications of hospitalization, particularly in the elderly. Pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines are essential components of the host response to pathogens and polymorphisms in their genes may contribute to inter-individual variations of the inflammatory response. The aim of this study was to investigate whether cytokine polymorphisms, separately or in combination, could be...
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