Variant mannose-binding lectin alleles are not associated with susceptibility to or outcome of invasive pneumococcal infection in randomly included patients

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1517-1520

  Kronborg, Gitte ^a   Weis, Nina ^b   Madsen, Hans O ^a   Pedersen, Svend S ^c   Wejse, Christian ^d   Nielsen, Henrik ^e   Skinhøj, Peter ^a   Garred, Peter ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BACTEREMIA; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLLECTINS; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LECTINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037094086     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/340216     Document Type: Article

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