Article
No association with HLA class II alleles in Swedish patients with cutaneous manifestations of Lyme borreliosis.
Acta dermato-venereologica - 1 Jul 1994
Olsson I, Asbrink E, Olerup O
Abstract excerpt
The possibility of an association between manifestations of Lyme borreliosis and HLA class II alleles has been investigated with varying results. In the present study, we used genomic typing techniques to determine the DR, DQ and DP allele frequencies in 29 patients with erythema migrans and 36 patients with acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans. We did not find a significant deviation from controls in the...
Topics
- Acrodermatitis
- Alleles
- Atrophy
- Blotting, Southern
- Erythema Chronicum Migrans
- HLA-D Antigens
- Haplotypes
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
- Humans
- Lyme Disease
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length