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TLR9 gene region polymorphisms and susceptibility to tuberculosis in Vietnam.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Mar 2015
Graustein A D, Horne D J, Arentz M, Bang N D, Chau T T H, Thwaites G E, Caws M, Thuong N T T, Dunstan S J, Hawn T R
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Humans exposed to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) show variation in susceptibility to infection and differences in tuberculosis (TB) disease outcome. Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) is a pattern recognition receptor that mediates recognition of Mtb and modulates Mtb-specific T-cell responses. Using a case-population design, we evaluated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the TLR9 gene region are...
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