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Interleukin-10 -1082 G/A gene polymorphisms in Egyptian children with CAP: A case-control study.
Medicine - 1 Jun 2016
Azab Seham F, Abdalhady Mohamed A, Elsaadany Hosam F, Elkomi Mohamed A, Elhindawy Eman M, Sarhan Dina T, Salam Mohamed M A, Allah Mayy A N, Emam Ahmed A, Noah Maha A, Abdelsalam Nasser I, Abdellatif Sawsan H, Rass Anwar A, Ismail Sanaa M, Gheith Tarek, Aziz Khalid A, Hamed Mohammed E, Abdelrahman Hind M, Ahmed Ahmed R, Nabil Rehab M, Abdulmaksoud Rehab S, Yousef Hala Y
Abstract excerpt
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Cytokines are involved in the pathogenesis of CAP. To date, only a few studies concerned the association of interleukin-10 (IL-10) gene polymorphisms with CAP.In this study, we aimed to investigate whether the -1082(G/A) polymorphism in the promoter region of the IL-10 gene is involved in susceptibility to and the outcome of CAP,...
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