HLA and elephantiasis revisited.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2370.1997.d01-119.x

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HLA and elephantiasis revisited.

European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Dec 1997

Yazdanbakhsh M, Abadi K, de Roo M, van Wouwe L, Denham D, Medeiros F, Verduijn W, Schreuder G M, Schipper R, Giphart M J, de Vries R R

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A recent case-control study in Indonesia suggested that the course of Brugian filariasis and in particular resistance to the development of elephantiasis was associated with certain HLA class II alleles. In order to see whether these data could be confirmed we conducted a similar study in another Indonesian population from South Sulawesi. We could not confirm our earlier results and therefore concluded that...

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