Association of ABO blood group polymorphism and tuberculosis: A study on Bengalee Hindu caste population, West Bengal, India.

doi:10.1016/j.ijtb.2016.09.014

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Association of ABO blood group polymorphism and tuberculosis: A study on Bengalee Hindu caste population, West Bengal, India.

The Indian journal of tuberculosis - 1 Oct 2016

Ganguly S, Sarkar P, Chatterjee D, Bandyopadhyay A R

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Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease commonly caused by the bacillus mycobacterium and worldwide estimation demonstrated that more than 8.6 million people are infected by TB. Many of the previous studies reported the association between TB and ABO blood group polymorphism. In this context, the objective of the present study is to understand the association of ABO blood group polymorphism and TB in Bengalee...

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ABO Blood-Group System
Case-Control Studies
Humans
India
Phenotype
Polymorphism, Genetic
Social Class
Tuberculosis

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PMID: 27998496
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtb.2016.09.014

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