Familial disseminated atypical mycobacterial infection in childhood: a human mycobacterial susceptibility gene?

The Lancet

Volumn 345, Issue 8942, 1995, Pages 79-83

  Levin, M ^a   Newport, M J ^a   Kalabalikis, Panos ^a   Klein, N ^a   D'Souza, S ^a   Brown, I N ^a   Lenicker, H M ^b   Vassallo Agius, P ^b   Davies, E G ^c   Thrasher, A ^d   Blackwell, J M ^e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Malta)

^c ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ENDOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; MALTA; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0028869497     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(95)90059-4     Document Type: Article

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