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Risk stratification and immunogenetic risk for infections following stem cell transplantation.
Virulence - 16 Nov 2016
Wójtowicz Agnieszka, Bochud Pierre-Yves
Abstract excerpt
Patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are highly exposed to infectious agents. However, it is not known why certain HSCT recipients rapidly develop severe infections while other, despite similar immunosuppressive conditions, do not. Increasing evidence suggests that such differences may be due, in part, to polymorphisms in immune genes. Thus, the identification of genetic factors...
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