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Host Genetic Signatures of Susceptibility to Fungal Disease.
Current topics in microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2019
Campos Cláudia F, van de Veerdonk Frank L, Gonçalves Samuel M, Cunha Cristina, Netea Mihai G, Carvalho Agostinho
Abstract excerpt
Our relative inability to predict the development of fungal disease and its clinical outcome raises fundamental questions about its actual pathogenesis. Several clinical risk factors are described to predispose to fungal disease, particularly in immunocompromised and severely ill patients. However, these alone do not entirely explain why, under comparable clinical conditions, only some patients develop infection....
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