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Microarray analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected monocytes reveals IL26 as a new candidate gene for tuberculosis susceptibility.
Immunology - 1 Feb 2015
Guerra-Laso José M, Raposo-García Sara, García-García Silvia, Diez-Tascón Cristina, Rivero-Lezcano Octavio M
Abstract excerpt
Differences in the activity of monocytes/macrophages, important target cells of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, might influence tuberculosis progression. With the purpose of identifying candidate genes for tuberculosis susceptibility we infected monocytes from both healthy elderly individuals (a tuberculosis susceptibility group) and elderly tuberculosis patients with M. tuberculosis, and performed a microarray...
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