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HLA and alveolar echinococcosis.
Tissue antigens - 1 Aug 1998
Eiermann T H, Bettens F, Tiberghien P, Schmitz K, Beurton I, Bresson-Hadni S, Ammann R W, Goldmann S F, Vuitton D A, Gottstein B, Kern P
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Evidence in animal intermediate hosts that susceptibility to larval infection with Echinococcus multilocularis is restricted to individual host factors prompted us to investigate the susceptibility markers in humans. Because antigens of the extracellular parasite E. multilocularis are possibly presented by MHC molecules in a restricted way, we speculated that MHC polymorphism may influence resistance of the host...
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