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Selected factors of the innate immunity in Polish patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
Immunobiology - 1 May 2020
Sokołowska Anna, Świerzko Anna S, Szala-Poździej Agnieszka, Augustynowicz-Kopeć Ewa, Kozińska Monika, Niemiec Tomasz, Błachnio Maria, Borkowska-Tatar Dagmara, Jensenius Jens C, Thiel Steffen, Dziadek Jarosław, Cedzyński Maciej
Abstract excerpt
We conducted a prospective study of 453 Polish patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and 267 healthy controls. Selected polymorphisms of the genes encoding for collectins, ficolins and MBL-associated serine protease 2 were investigated as were serum concentrations of mannose-binding lectin, surfactant protein D, ficolin-1 and ficolin-3. The number of MBL2 gene exon 1 variant allele carriers was...
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