Acute respiratory tract infections and mannose-binding lectin insufficiency during early childhood;Akutte luftvejsinfektioner og mangel på mannosebindende lektin hos små børn

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 164, Issue 48, 2002, Pages 5635-5640

  Koch, Anders ^a   Melbye, Mads ^b   Sørensen, Per ^b   Homøe, Preben ^b   Madsen, Hans O ^b   Mølbak, Kåre ^b   Hansen, Christoffer Holst ^b   Andersen, Lasse Høgh ^b   Weinkauff Hahn, Gitte ^b   Garred, Peter ^b  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LECTIN; MANNOSE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; GREENLAND; HEALTH SURVEY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALLELES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; GENOTYPE; GREENLAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037175661     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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