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Interleukin-17A in Egyptian leprosy patients: a clinical, genetic, and biochemical study.
Anais brasileiros de dermatologia - 1 Jan 2000
Farag Azza Gaber Antar, Labeeb Azza Zagloul, Gerges Amany Nagy Abdalla, Elshaib Mustafa Elsayed
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Leprosy represents a long-term communicable disease resulting from Mycobacterium leprae infection. IL-17A is one of the pro-inflammatory cytokines that protects humans against many fungal and bacterial pathogens. OBJECTIVE: To investigate IL-17A (rs2275913) gene polymorphism and its circulating level in leprosy patients, and to correlate the detected results with different clinical aspects of leprosy...
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