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HLA and elephantiasis in lymphatic filariasis.
Human immunology - 1 Sept 1995
Yazdanbakhsh M, Sartono E, Kruize Y C, Kurniawan A, Partono F, Maizels R M, Schreuder G M, Schipper R, de Vries R R
Abstract excerpt
Lymphatic filariasis presents a spectrum of manifestations with infection-free asymptomatics at one end and elephantiasis at the other. In order to determine if any HLA antigens are associated with the development of elephantiasis, we compared the HLA frequencies in 55 elephantiasis patients with those in 40 controls consisting of individuals older than 45 years of age without any signs of elephantiasis. The only...
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