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Host genetics and opportunistic fungal infections.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Dec 2014
Pana Z-D, Farmaki E, Roilides E
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Current knowledge on the human pathophysiology of fungal infections highlights the crucial role of genetic pitfalls in specific immunity pathways that determine, together with other risk factors, the predisposition to and clinical outcome of fungal disease. In several studies, associations between gene polymorphisms and genetic errors have been implicated in an immunodeficiency phenotype and an increased...
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