An interleukin-1 genotype is associated with fatal outcome of meningococcal disease

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 182, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1557-1560

  Read, Robert C ^a   Camp, Nicola J ^a,c   Di Giovine, Franco S ^a   Borrow, Raymond ^b   Kaczmarski, Edward B ^b   Chaudhary, Adeel G A ^a   Fox, Andrew J ^b   Duff, Gordon W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b WITHINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERLEUKIN-1; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGE; POLYMORPHISM (GENETICS); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

EID: 0033787451     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315889     Document Type: Article

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