Toll-like receptor 2 Arg677Trp polymorphism is associated with susceptibility to tuberculosis in Tunisian patients

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 625-626

  Ben Ali, Meriem ^a   Barbouche, Mohamed Ridha ^a   Bousnina, Soufia ^b   Chabbou, Abdellatif ^b   Dellagi, Koussay ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b ABDERRAHMAN MAMI HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GENOMIC DNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TUNISIA;

ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 2; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; TUNISIA;

EID: 2442714055     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.11.3.625-626.2004     Document Type: Article

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