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Association of symptoms and severity of rift valley fever with genetic polymorphisms in human innate immune pathways.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Mar 2015
Hise Amy G, Traylor Zachary, Hall Noémi B, Sutherland Laura J, Dahir Saidi, Ermler Megan E, Muiruri Samuel, Muchiri Eric M, Kazura James W, LaBeaud A Desirée, King Charles H, Stein Catherine M
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BACKGROUND: Multiple recent outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in Africa, Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula have resulted in significant morbidity, mortality, and financial loss due to related livestock epizootics. Presentation of human RVF varies from mild febrile illness to meningoencephalitis, hemorrhagic diathesis, and/or ophthalmitis with residual retinal scarring, but the determinants for severe...
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