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<p class="MDPI12title"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Genetic Polymorphisms of <em>IL6</em>-174G/C <em>TNFα</em>-308G/A and <em>TNFα</em>-238G/A and Risk to Pleural Tuberculosis in Venezuelan Patients
2025-09-26
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Tuberculosis (TB) has various clinical presentations; pulmonary TB (PTB) affects only the lungs, while extra-pulmonary TB is defined as the disease involving any other or-gans, including pleural TB (PLTB). Immunological studies of patients with ex-tra-pulmonary TB mainly focus on the cellular Th1 response, which produce key cyto-kines like IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-12, and IL-6. The TNF-α, and IL-6, which play functional r...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d177e687-8931-5df2-a01f-92a932e4270f
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- 10.20944/preprints202509.2198.v1
