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

Abstract excerpt

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...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Brugia
Case-Control Studies
Elephantiasis, Filarial
Genes, MHC Class II
HLA-DQ Antigens
HLA-DR Antigens
Humans
Indonesia
Middle Aged

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PMID: 9534043
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2370.1997.d01-119.x

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